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Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.

A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc. An app…

A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.

c., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

That which is all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, the Deity. [R.] Omniety formed nullity into an essence. Sir T. Browne.

A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

A general or comprehensive view. [R.]

A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate. Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. Heb. vi. 1. A good principle, not ri…

A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.

To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.

Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense." Locke.

Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly. In speaking roundly of this period. H. Morley.

rominent; conspicuous; noticeable. He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. Bancroft.

A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.

ral laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge. All this new science that men lere [teach]. Chaucer. Science is . . . a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of…

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. Rowe.

A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.

To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.