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With great extent of signification; comprehensively. Tillotson.

The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion. In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.

One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

To gape; to open by dehiscence.

The act of gaping.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

To disparage. [Obs.]

A dishonoring; disgracing. [Obs.] Gauden.

owth or the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).

Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.

To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.] The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward. "Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.

Dissuasion; advice against something. [R.]

Dissuasive. [R.]

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]

To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

To remove the husk from. [Obs.] "Wheat dehusked upon the floor." Drant.