COMPREHEND Copy link • COMPREHENDto comprise: comprehendere. complecti (as well of space as of mental comprehension): continere (of things only): the world comprehends every thing, mundus omnia complexu suo coërcet et continet: to comprehend much, late patere: to be comprehended in anything, subesse alicui rei; pertinere ad rem (belong to anything): to be comprehended in the number, esse or haberi in eo numero. To master with one’s intellect, etc.: comprehendere, complecti with and without animo or mente: cogitatione comprehendere (to comprehend with one’s intellect): capere (mente): mente concipere, percipere. cognoscere et percipere (seize with one’s intellect): assequi (reach or seize, as it were, the meaning or sense of anything, to understand): intelligere, also with the addition of animo ac ratione (Cic.): (the words are found in this connexion and order.) intelligere et cogitatione comprehendere: perspicere (see through a thing): to have comprehended, comprehensum, perceptum, cognitum comprehensumque habere; animo comprehensum tenere; ratione et intelligentia tenere: to comprehend readily, celeriter comprehendere; arripere: to comprehend anything thoroughly, penitus perspicere planeque cognoscere; easy or difficult to comprehend [Vid: COMPREHENSIBLE]: what can not at all be comprehended, quod nullius mens aut cogitatio capere potest: not to be comprehended, fugere intelligentiae nostrae vim ac notionem; I can not comprehend (i. e., I am at a loss), miror, admiror aliquid, also with quod or infinitive; e.g., I can not comprehend why your letter is so short, admiror brevitatem epistolae: it is difficult to comprehend what or of what nature the mind is, difficilis est animi, quid aut qualis sit, intelligentia; scarcely to be able to comprehend anything with the greatest meditation, aliquid vix summa ingenii ratione comprehendere. one who comprehends anything easily, docilis: in aliquo est ingenii docilitas (teachable); perspicax (having a quick eye); slow in comprehending, tardus (slow of comprehension).