Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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. — Is. xl. 12
2.
To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. — Hobbes
And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying. — Rom. xiii. 9
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. — W. Irwing
Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. — Job. xxxvii. 5