comprend

English

Etymology

From Middle English comprenden, from Old French comprendre. Doublet of comprehend.

Verb

comprend (third-person singular simple present comprends, present participle comprending, simple past and past participle comprended)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of comprehend.
   • 1575, Augustine Marlorate, translated by Thomas Timme, A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall Exposition of the Holy Gospell after S. Iohn. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, page 243, column 1:

     B. The Euangeliſt calleth the Coſins and Kinſemen of our Sauiour, his bꝛethꝛen, accoꝛding to the manner of the ſcriptur. C. Foꝛ by this name the Iewes compꝛended all kinſemen, in what degrée of bloode ſoeuer they bée: as wée haue ſhewed in another place.

   • 1594, Torquato Tasso, translated by R[ichard] C[arew], Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Hierusalem. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Christopher Hunt […], page 170:

     This ſayd, ſhe peac’d, and his anſwere attends, / In act which ſilent doth both ſpeake and pray: / Godfrey his doubtfull mind toſſing ſuſpends / Twixt diuers thoughts, ne wots which ſide to ſway; / He dreads Barbarians wiles, and well comprends; / Man findes no faith where God receiues a nay: […]

   • 1607, Arthur Dent, The Ruine of Rome. Or An Exposition vpon the Whole Reuelation. […], London: W[illiam] I[aggard] for Simon Waterson and Richard Banckworth, page 7:

     True it is indeede that there are but ſeuen churches named, but vnder theſe ſeuen Churches all others are comprended.

   • 1618, Peter de la Primaudaye, translated by Richard Dolman, “[The First Daeis VVorke of the third Tome of the French Academy.] Of the hower circles, and what is done by them in sunne dials: and of the circles, which deuide the twelue houses of heauen.”, in The French Academie. Fully Discoursed and Finished in Foure Bookes. […], London: […] [John Legat] for Thomas Adams, page 688:

     You muſt therefore imagine by the houre-circles twelue greater circles (therein compriſing the Meridian) which paſſe through the poles of the world, and by the diſtinctions of the foreſaid foure and twenty parts of the Equinoctiall: ſo that each quarter thereof comprended between the Meridian & the Horizon, is diuided by the ſaid circles into ſix of the foreſaid parts making together the number of foure and twenty hourely ſpaces, whereof the ſaid circles receiue their name.

   • 1668, Robert Howard, “To the Reader”, in The Great Favourite, or, The Duke of Lerma. […], [London]: […] Henry Herringman, […], signature [A4], verso:

     To ſhew therefore upon what ill grounds they dictate Lawes for Dramatick Poeſie, I ſhall endeavour to make it evident, that there’s no ſuch thing as what they all pretend; for, if ſtrictly and duely weigh’d, ’tis as impoſſible for one ſtage to preſent two Houſes, or two Roomes truely, as two Countreys or Kingdomes; and as impoſſible that five houres, or four and twenty houres ſhould be two houres and a halfe, as that a thouſand houres or yeares ſhould be leſs than what they are; or the greateſt part of time to be comprended in the leſs; […]

   • 1699, [John Edwards?], The Reverend and Learned D^r. Hammond and His Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament, Vindicated from the Rude and Unjust Reflections Made upon Him and Them by Monsieur Le Clerc, […], London: […] Luke Meredith, […], page 48:

     Parents were the Primitive Soveraigns, and thence it is accountable and reaſonable that ſuch a Stile as this ſhould be uſed here; and that under Fathers and Mothers ſhould be comprended, not only Natural but Civil Parents, all that have a Superiority and Authority over us.

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Verb

comprend

1. third-person singular present indicative of comprendre