Verb
Synonym of comprehend.
Usage- Obsolete
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B. The Euangeliſt calleth the Coſins and Kinſemen of our Sauiour, his bꝛethꝛen, accoꝛding to the manner of the ſcriptur. C. Foꝛ by this name the Iewes compꝛended all kinſemen, in what degrée of bloode ſoeuer they bée: as wée haue ſhewed in another place.
This ſayd, ſhe peac’d, and his anſwere attends, / In act which ſilent doth both ſpeake and pray: / Godfrey his doubtfull mind toſſing ſuſpends / Twixt diuers thoughts, ne wots which ſide to ſway; / He dreads Barbarians wiles, and well comprends; / Man findes no faith where God receiues a nay: […]
True it is indeede that there are but ſeuen churches named, but vnder theſe ſeuen Churches all others are comprended.
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You muſt therefore imagine by the houre-circles twelue greater circles (therein compriſing the Meridian) which paſſe through the poles of the world, and by the diſtinctions of the foreſaid foure and twenty parts of the Equinoctiall: ſo that each quarter thereof comprended between the Meridian & the Horizon, is diuided by the ſaid circles into ſix of the foreſaid parts making together the number of foure and twenty hourely ſpaces, whereof the ſaid circles receiue their name.
To ſhew therefore upon what ill grounds they dictate Lawes for Dramatick Poeſie, I ſhall endeavour to make it evident, that there’s no ſuch thing as what they all pretend; for, if ſtrictly and duely weigh’d, ’tis as impoſſible for one ſtage to preſent two Houſes, or two Roomes truely, as two Countreys or Kingdomes; and as impoſſible that five houres, or four and twenty houres ſhould be two houres and a halfe, as that a thouſand houres or yeares ſhould be leſs than what they are; or the greateſt part of time to be comprended in the leſs; […]
Parents were the Primitive Soveraigns, and thence it is accountable and reaſonable that ſuch a Stile as this ſhould be uſed here; and that under Fathers and Mothers ſhould be comprended, not only Natural but Civil Parents, all that have a Superiority and Authority over us.