To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.
I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.
To include, comprise; to contain.
And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend.
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