Comprehensively

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a comprehensive manner.

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1628. Donne, Serm., 1 Cor. xiii. 12. Our knowledge cannot be so dilated, nor God condensed and contracted so, as that we can know him … comprehensively.

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1820. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), II. 11. To state the fact and the truth comprehensively.

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1885. L’pool Daily Post, 7 May, 4/8. A measure dealing comprehensively with the subject of local government in Ireland.

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