Comprehend
Comprehend , transitive verb
[Latin comprehendere, comprehensum; com- + prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in comp.). See Get, and compare Comprise.]
1.
To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
Who hath... comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure.
2.
To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion.
And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying.
3.
To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
At a loss to comprehend the question.
Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend.