comprehensibility (komprehensibiliti)

compr (= F. compréhensibilité = Sp. comprensibilidad, comprehensibilidad = Pg. comprehensibilidade = It. comprensibilità, comprehensible (kom-pre-hen'si-bl), a. [= F. compréhensible = Sp. comprensible, comprehen sible = Pg. comprehensivel = It. comp rens i bile, hended or included; po ible to be comprised. [Rare.] God is not comprehensyble nor circumscribed nowhere. Sir T. More, Works, p. 121. Narrations and ponnesus, within the notice and instructions of the writer. 1155 I shall begin with the most comprehensive relation, wherein all things that do or can exist are concerned. Locke , Human Understanding, II. xxv. 11. So diffusive, so comprehensive , and so catholic a grace is charity. Bp. Sprat , Sermons. compre or ton, etc., are pre ed into the smallest po ible compa for stowage. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 128. 2. Capable of being understood; conceivable by the mind; intelligible. An actual, bodily, comprehensible place of torment. Milman, Latin Christianity, xiv. 2. Quick observation and a penetrating intuition, making H. Spencer , Data of Ethics, § 94. comprehensiblene (kom-prē-hen ́si-bl-nes), [ comprehensible + -ne .] Capability of being understood; comprehensibility. instantly comprehensible the state of mind and its origin. n. Which facility and comprehensiblene must needs improve the usefulne of these expositions. Dr. H. More, Epistles to the Seven Churches. comprehensibly (kom-prē-hen'si-bli), adv . In a comprehensible manner; conceivably. comprehension (kom-pre-hen's hon), n. [F. compréhension = Sp.comp rens i on , comprehension = Pg.comprehensão = It. comp rens i one , L.com prehensio (n-), conprehensio ( n - ) , comprehend ere , pp. com pre hens us , comprehend: see comprehend.] 1. The act of comprehending, includ ing, or embracing; a comprising; inclusion. In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker . Was it le easy to obtain, or at least to ask for, their concurrence in a comprehension or toleration of the Presbyterian clergy? Hallam. 2. The quality or state of being comprehensive; comprehensivene . [Rare.] The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical translations of an cient writers; a work which the French seem to relinquish in despair, and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity. Johnson, Dryden. 3t. That which comprehends or contains within itself; a summary; an epitome. Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet. comprehension of them. Chilling worth, Relig. of Protestant Church, i. 4. stand. His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head. Pope , Moral E ays, i. 83. They know not what it is to feel within A comprehensive faculty, that grasps Great purposes with ease. Cowper , Task, v. 251. =Syn. 1 and 2. Broad, extensive, large, capacious. comprehensively (kom-prē-hen's iv-li), adv . In a comprehensive manner. ( a ) So as to contain much in small compa ; concisely. And here I shall not restrain righteousne to the par ticular virtue of justice, but enlarge it according to the genius and strain of the book of the Proverbs, in which the words wisdom and righteousne are commonly used very comprehensively, so as to signify all religion and virtue. Til lots on , Sermons, I. iii. (6) With great scope; so as to include a wide extent or many particulars.