Both Uses
comprehend
in
Night, by Elie Wiesel
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- First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend.†
p. 4.2 *comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- Man is too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways.†
p. 76.9
Definitions:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
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(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."