v. Obs. [a. OF. comprend-re, or its original, L. comprend-ĕre, contr. f. comprehendĕre: see COMPREHEND.] = COMPREHEND.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. iv. 165. Resoun … comprendiþ þe þinges ymaginable and sensible.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 6635. I wole not determine Of prynces power … Ne by my word comprende, iwys, If it so ferre may strecche in this.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., III. 394. Doutlesse every graffyng wol comprende, Untempered lyme yf with the graffes be put in the plages.
1594. R. Carew, Tasso (1881), 89. He … well comprends; Man findes no faith where God receiues a nay.
