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Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

f lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. [R.] Cudworth.

A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. [Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book. Donne.

o arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand. Things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate. Ray.

ess of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult. And to each in ward part, With gentle penetration, though unseen, Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep. Milton. A penetration into the difficulties of algebra. Watts.

Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain. Homilies are plain popular instructions. Hooker.

A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.] Do what, sir I reach you not. Beau. & Fl.

Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. Who is't can read a woman Shak.

appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning. Addison.

ing, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends. Coleridge.

To understand; to comprehend; know. [Slang, U. S.]

A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.