Both Uses of
comprehend
in
The Great Gatsby
- That was comprehensible.
p. 49.4 *comprehensible = understandable
- The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people.
p. 66.7comprehended = understood
Definitions:
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(1)
(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and more frequently in the past), comprehend can mean to include as part of something broader. That was the first sense of the word listed in Webster's Dictionary of 1828 with this sample sentence: "The empire of Great Britain comprehends England, Scotland and Ireland, with their dependencies."