Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who comprehends; one who understands thoroughly.
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- noun
Agent noun ofcomprehend : one who comprehends.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My comprehender is cornfused & I can't make hide nor hair of what the dawg be testing.
Ah dunno. 2010
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My comprehender is cornfused & I can't make hide nor hair of what the dawg be testing.
Ah dunno. 2010
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We talked about his inability to grasp concepts and how that was causing him to be too much of a memorizer rather than a comprehender.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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We talked about his inability to grasp concepts and how that was causing him to be too much of a memorizer rather than a comprehender.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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French -- A comprehender of Earthquakes -- The author of _The Rights of
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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The conclusion is more weighty by far that all things bear their fruit: that the comprehender and the master of so much, the very _mind_, suffers to no purpose and in one moment a tragic, final, and unworthy catastrophe agrees with nothing other that we know.
On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911
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And yet that image is comprehended, the human mind being the comprehender thereof, and certainly the comprehender is greater than that which lieth within its grasp; for imagination is but the branch, while mind is the root; and certainly the root is greater than the branch.
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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