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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
prehend .
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Examples
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In Friedrich Gun - dolf's George, which was written while the author enjoyed the poet's confidence, it is stated: “Plato's work is probably the only literary work which George com - prehends through a brotherly spirit and not only as myth” (F. Gundolf, George, Berlin [1920], p. 52).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968
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We have avoided controversy on that head, because it com-prehends questions not more doubtful than unedifying.
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At length, when it has attained maturity and vigour, it com - prehends the full force and significancy of human nature, that is, it first of all acquaints itself with its own domestic affairs, not but it may, if it pleases, examine and learn what lies beyond.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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Upuer Loinburdy the weftem part, com - prehends Piedmont, with its depeiidcii« cies, and the duchies of Montferrot ami Milan.
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Thb is the largeft divifion* and com - prehends the eftates of Culter and Counteflwelk, and the lands of Murtle.
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If taken in the extenfive fenfe of an affent to the evidence of things not feen, it com - prehends the exiftence of a God, and a fu* ture ftate, and is therefore not only itfelf a moral virtue, but the fource from whence all others muft proceed; for on the belief of thefe all religion and morality muft entirely depend.
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The condudl of Providence com - prehends a'Cfycle far beyond the concep - tion of man.
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That great, and precious promife [/will fa 'thy God] cqjp - prehends them all.
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On the other hand, God knows ” in Whiteheadian language, God prehends ” each “cell” of the divine body in a perfectly distinct fashion whereas others experience their cells en masse, much as one sees the green of the grass but not each blade.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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