prehending

The novel's plot is a-whirl with misinterpretations as the three central characters and the cultures they represent go spinning along in fruitless, uncom-prehending pursuit of each other.

do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

He looked at their uncom-prehending faces and raised his arms in frustration.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

The murder was so brutal, according to Brownsville police officers who were at the scene, that even they had a hard time com-prehending how something like that could happen.

Brownsville Herald : 2010

The very circumstance of the difficulty we find in com* prehending the whole of the Divine Scheme, both in the ntural and moral world, while at the same time we find IPC can enter into them so far, and see so much of wisdom and contrivance, is a beauty, and a proof that the Author b one whose ways are immensely above our ways, and Us thoughts above our thoughts.

The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1812

Sileitl is divided into 19 prin - palatinate of Um Rhine, SG miles SSW. cipalities, and 7 free ftaics, without com. of Cobientz. prehending the county of Glatz.

The universal gazetteer : being a concise description ... of the nations, kingdoms, states, towns ... &c. in the known world ; the government, manners, and religion of the inhabitants ... of the different countries. Illustrated with a complete set of maps 1795

The name of the tenth clafs in Linneus's artificial fyltem; com - prehending all hermaphrodite flowers with ten ftamens. —

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793

It feemtd like ihe dawning of themornbg: the firft glimpfc fcems to be the promife of the feed of the woman bruiiing the fcrpent's head, and which, undoubtedly, included ia it far more than they, at that time, were capable of com - prehending; but, neverthelefs, was the feed, or bud, of a glorious tree.

Ten sermons on the Millennium; or, The glory of the latter days; and five sermons on what ... 1789

'In a work no lefs fplendid than important, the father of pro - phane hiftory had deduced the tranfadtions between the Greeks and Barbarians, from the earlieft accouots till the conciufion of the Per - iian war; a work including the hiftory of many centuries, and com - prehending the greateft kingdoms and empires of the ancient world*

The Monthly Review 1786

The firft and mofb northerly of thefe, fomewhat more limited than that of French Canada, was called the government of QLiebec •, the other two, com - prehending our more fouthern acquifitions, were diftinguifhed, as we have al - ready had occalion to oblerve, into the governments of EaU and Wcfl: Florida.

The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. 1778

He has Hated to the Houfe two grounds of deliberation; one narrow and limple, and merely confined to the queftion on your paper: the other more large and more complicated; com - prehending the whole leries of the parliamen - tary proceedings with regard to America, their caules, and their confequences.

Speech of Edmund Burke, esq. on American taxation, April 14, 1774 1775