COMPREHENSIVELY

comprehensively

(adverb) in an all-inclusive manner

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

comprehensively (comparative more comprehensively, superlative most comprehensively)

In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.

Synonyms

• completely, exhaustively, thoroughly, totally; see also completely

Source: Wiktionary


Com`pre*hen"sive*ly, adv.

Definition: In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

COMPREHENSIVE

Com`pre*hen"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. compréhensif.]

1. Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

2. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things. "His comprehensive head." Pope.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups which have a combination of structures that appear in more fully developed or specialized forms in later groups. Synthetic, as used by Agssiz, is nearly synonymous.

Syn.

– Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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