All 26 Uses of

comprehend
in
Pride and Prejudice

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.†
p. 38.2

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely

"Then," observed Elizabeth, "you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman."†
p. 39.3

He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motives his cousin could refuse him; and though his pride was hurt, he suffered in no other way.†
p. 110.6

I do not at all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again.†
p. 145.9

I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been.†
p. 188.9

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.†
p. 198.4

comprehension = the understanding of something

Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.†
p. 221.3

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely

In this danger Kitty also is comprehended.†
p. 223.7

comprehended = understood completely

Wickham's alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minutes he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents: "You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appearance of what is right.†
p. 226.4

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely

One enjoyment was certain—that of suitableness of companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear inconveniences—cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure—and affection and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappointments abroad.†
p. 231.6

comprehended = understood completely

But he is a liberal master, I suppose, and that in the eye of a servant comprehends every virtue.†
p. 247.3

comprehends = understands something

In Darcy's presence she dared not mention Wickham's name; but Elizabeth instantly comprehended that he was uppermost in her thoughts; and the various recollections connected with him gave her a moment's distress; but exerting herself vigorously to repel the ill-natured attack, she presently answered the question in a tolerably detached tone.†
p. 257.4

comprehended = understood completely

In such an exigence, my uncle's advice and assistance would be everything in the world; he will immediately comprehend what I must feel, and I rely upon his goodness.†
p. 262.9

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely

Though her brother and sister were persuaded that there was no real occasion for such a seclusion from the family, they did not attempt to oppose it, for they knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that one only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject.†
p. 274.5

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely

You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.†
p. 286.8

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.†
p. 295.8 *

"You may readily comprehend," she added, "what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and (comparatively speaking) a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time.†
p. 302.9

He then told her of Georgiana's delight in her acquaintance, and of her disappointment at its sudden interruption; which naturally leading to the cause of that interruption, she soon learnt that his resolution of following her from Derbyshire in quest of her sister had been formed before he quitted the inn, and that his gravity and thoughtfulness there had arisen from no other struggles than what such a purpose must comprehend.†
p. 350.3

Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.†
p. 357.6

I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?†
p. 359.1

By Elizabeth's instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself.†
p. 366.9

Definitions:

(1) (comprehend)
to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
(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."