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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
comprehend
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Examples
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If there be half the wit in thy head that there is apprehension in thy look, thou fully comprehendest all that
The Abbot 2008
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But the phantom exclaims: 'Thou art akin to the spirit that thou comprehendest -- not to me!'
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If thou understandest not nor comprehendest the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee?
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Thou comprehendest all things in mercy and knowledge, therefor forgive those who repent and follow Thy way.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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A colloquy ensues at the end of which the Spirit rebuffs the presumptuous mortal with the words: "Thou art like the spirit whom thou comprehendest, not like me" -- and disappears.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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And if thou comprehendest not the work of an artisan, much less of God, the best of artificers.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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But that thou mayest better under stand this high intellectual way, I will cause to shine before thee the light of a good distinction, which, if thou clearly comprehendest it, will save thee from all error, however high thou mayest soar with thy mind.
The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself. Heinrich or Suso 1865
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Of all Mardian, thou alone comprehendest those arcane combinations, whereby to drag to day the most deftly hidden things, present and to come.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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Who can doubt that thou well comprehendest the kindly purpose of thy consoling visits!
Sketches Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Nay, "George added, a faint smile illumining his wan but noble features," why speak to thee in the accents of the Roman poet, which thou comprehendest not?
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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