Obs. [Agent-n. in L. form from comprehendĕre: see above.] One who has attained to full comprehension. (In 17th-c. Divinity, with reference to Philipp. iii. 12–13: cf. the Vulgate.)
1653. W. Sclater, Fun. Serm. (1654), 16. Not Comprehensors, till actually instated Members of the Church Triumphant above in glory.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Soul’s Farewell, § 7. Thou art yet a traveller, they [Saints] comprehensors.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 280. Christ … was Comprehensor from the beginning … yet his experimental knowledge came by degrees.
a. 1710. Bp. Bull, Serm., V. Wks. 1827, I. 117. Though St. Paul were an excellent apostle, yet he was still but a man … a viator, not a comprehensor, a proficient, not yet fully perfect.
