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Comprehension
COMPREHENSION, n.
1. The act or quality of comprehending, or containing; a comprising.
In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old.
2. An including or containing within a narrow compass; a summary; an epitome or compend.
This wise and religious aphorism in the text, is the sum and comprehension of all the ingredients of human happiness.
3. Capacity of the mind to understand; power of the understanding to receive and contain ideas; capacity of knowing.
The nature of spirit is not within our comprehension.
4. In rhetoric, a grope or figure, by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
comprehension appears in definitions for these words:
Above Acatalepsy Appear Beyond Compendiousness Comprehensibly Comprehension Deep Dullness Embracement Exclusively Incomprehension Inconceivably Largeness Mysterious Mystery Mystic Narrowness Science Understanding Understandingly
Above Acatalepsy Appear Beyond Compendiousness Comprehensibly Comprehension Deep Dullness Embracement Exclusively Incomprehension Inconceivably Largeness Mysterious Mystery Mystic Narrowness Science Understanding Understandingly
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