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The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.

The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.

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.

Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties. [Obs.] Mede.

A fish of the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin. (2)

The corncrake or land rail.

A bantam fowl.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.

nwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend. The deprehended adulteress.Jer. Taylor.

That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible. [Obs.] Petty. -- Dep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

A catching; discovery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To deepen. [Obs.]

5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]