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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.

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comprehend + -eth

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Examples

  • Or else the latter appellation comprehendeth not the former; as in this proposition, every man is just, the name of just comprehendeth not every man; for unjust is the name of the far greater part of men.

    The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 1650

  • Regarding the law of nature, Hooker reiterated Thomas' emphasis on the role of reason: "those lawes are investigable by reason without the helpe of revelation supernaturall and divine ... meaning thereby the law which humaine nature knoweth itselfe in reason ... comprehendeth all those thinges which men by the light of their naturall understanding evidently know".

    Iris Robinson, theological ignorance and the law of God Burke's Corner 2008

  • Sahim who, seeing the flaming of the fire, sought help of the One, the All-conquering Creator of night and day, Him of All-might, whom no sight comprehendeth, but who comprehendeth all sights, for He is the Subtle, the All-knowing.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now when the Infidels heard the name of the All-powerful King, the One, the All-conquering, whom the sight comprehendeth not, but He comprehendeth the sight,347 they looked at one another and said,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • One, the Almighty, whom the sight comprehendeth not!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Protector, whom eye comprehendeth on no wise and who maketh night on day arise

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then said she, “What is the Divine ordinance of ordinances and the ordinance which is the initiator of all ordinances and that of which all others stand in need and that which comprehendeth all others; and what is the traditional ordinance that entereth into the Koranic, and the prophetic practice whereby the Divine is completed?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Regarding the law of nature, Hooker reiterated Thomas' emphasis on the role of reason: "those lawes are investigable by reason without the helpe of revelation supernaturall and divine ... meaning thereby the law which humaine nature knoweth itselfe in reason ... comprehendeth all those thinges which men by the light of their naturall understanding evidently know".

    Archive 2008-07-01 Burke's Corner 2008

  • All-powerful, Maker of night and day and the sphere revolving alway, Whom compre hendeth no sight, but Who comprehendeth all sights, for He is the Subtle, the All-wise.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As for example, the name body is of larger signification than the word man, and comprehendeth it; and the names man and rational are of equal extent, comprehending mutually one another.

    Leviathan 2007

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