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The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.

With great extent of signification; comprehensively. Tillotson.

nding, 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.

hall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

Capability of being condensed.

Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.

Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

Having the property of condensing.

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, proc…

One who, or that which, condenses.

Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.

rtesy toward inferiors. It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

Agreement; accord. Bentley.

Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions. Consensual contract (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.

Agreement; accord; consent. That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor.

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.