COMPREHENDS
Verb
comprehends
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend
Source: Wiktionary
COMPREHEND
Com`pre*hend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Comprehended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Comprehending.] Etym: [L. comprehendere, comprehensum; com- +
prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in
comp.). See Get, and cf. Comprise.]
1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in
the Austrian Empire.
Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is.
xl. 12.
2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise;
to imply.
Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. Hobbes.
And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in
this saying. Rom. xiii. 9.
3. To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to
apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
At a loss to comprehend the question. W. Irwing.
Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. Job. xxxvii. 5.
Syn.
– To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp; embody;
involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive; understand. See
Apprehend.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition