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<p><b>3.</b> <def>One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.</def>

<blockquote>Religious houses made <b>compounders</b> For the horrid actions of their founders. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>A. Wood.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Eng. Hist.)</fld> <def>A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.</def>

<h1>Comprador</h1> <Xpage=292>

<hw>Com`pra*dor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pg., a buyer.]</ety> <def>A kind of steward or agent.</def> <mark>[China]</mark>

<i>S. W. Williams</i>

<h1>Comprecation</h1> <Xpage=292>

<hw>Com`pre*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>comprecatio</ets>, fr. <ets>comprecari</ets> to pray to. See <er>Precarious</er>.]</ety> <def>A praying together.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Wilkins.</i>

<h1>Comprehend</h1> <Xpage=292>

<hw>Com`pre*hend"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Comprehended</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Comprehending</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>comprehendere</ets>, <ets>comprehensum</ets>; <ets>com-</ets> + <ets>prehendere</ets> to grasp, seize; <ets>prae</ets> before + <ets>hendere</ets> (used only in comp.). See <er>Get</er>, and cf. <er>Comprise</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To contain; to embrace; to include; <as>as, the states <ex>comprehended</ex> in the Austrian Empire</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Who hath . . . <b>comprehended</b> the dust of the earth in a measure. <i>Is. xl. 12.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.</def>

<blockquote><b>Comprehended</b> all in this one word, Discretion. <i>Hobbes.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly <b>comprehended</b> in this saying. <i>Rom. xiii. 9.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.</def>

<blockquote>At a loss to <b>comprehend</b> the question. <i>W. Irwing.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Great things doeth he, which we can not <b>comprehend</b>. <i>Job. xxxvii. 5.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp; embody; involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive; understand. See <er>Apprehend</er>.</syn>

<h1>Comprehensibility</h1> <Xpage=292>

<hw>Com`pre*hen`si*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.</def>

<h1>Comprehensible</h1> <Xpage=292>

<hw>Com"pre*hen"si*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>comprehensibilis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>compre\'82hensible</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.</def>

<blockquote>Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not <b>comprehensible</b> by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.</def>

<blockquote>The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not <b>comprehensible</b> by us. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>