Both Uses
comprehend
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Military-Industrial Complex Speech
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- Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.†
*comprehension = the understanding of something
- Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.†
comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
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) 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."