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Show cCoM 2. A mingler ; one who mixes bodies 7, COMPREHE'ND. v. 4. [comprehende Latin. 1. To comprife ; to include ; to contain to imply ph If there be any other commandment, it is briefl comprebended in' this faying, namely Thou fhal Rom. xiiie 9 love thy neighbour as thyfelf It would be ridiculous to grow old in the ftud of every neceffary thing, in an art which compreDryden's Dufre[noy bends fo many feveral parts 2. To contain in the mind ; to underftand to conceive Rome was not better by her Horace taught Than we are here to comprebend his thought Waller *Tis unjuft, that they who have not the leaft notion of heroic writing, fthould therefore condem the pleafure which others receive from it, becauf Dyryden they cannot comprebend it. CoMPREHE'NSIBLE. adj. [comprebenfible Fr. comprehenfibilis, Lat. 1. Intelligible ; attainable by the mind conceivable by the underftanding The horizon fets the bounds between the enlightened and dark parts of things, between wha is and what is not comprebenfible by us Lacke 2. Poflible to be comprifed Left this part of knowiedge fhould feem to an not camprebenfible by axiom, we will fet down fom heads of it Bacon CoMPREHE'NSIBLY. adv. [from comprekenfible.] With great power of fignification or underftanding; fignificantly with great extent of fenfe. Tillotio feems to have wufed comprebenfibly fo comprehenfively The words wifdom and righteoufnefs are com monly ufed very, comprebenfibly religion and virtue fo as to fignify al Tillotfon CoMPREHE NSION. 7. /. [comprehenfio, Latin 1. Th a& or quality of comprifing o containing ; inclufion In the Old Teftament there is a clofe comprebenfio of th Th mode of the New, in the New an open difcover Old Hooker comprebenfion of an idea, regards all eflentia and properties of it 5 fo body, in its compre benfion, takes in folidity, figure, quantity, mobility 2 Summary Watts's Logick epitome ; compendium abfira&t; abridgment in which much i comprifed If we woul happinefs cCcCoO CoO draw a fhort abftra&t of huma bring togethe all the various ingre ners and hurmours of the whole Englifh nation i his age ; not a fingle charater has efcaped him Dryden's Fables, Preface His hand unftain'd, his uncorrupted heart that fhall find out an hypothefis, by whic water may be fo rare and yet not be capable o compreffion by force, may doubsle(s, by the fam hypothefis, mak gold and water, and all other bo His comprebenfive head5 all interefts weigh'd All Europe fav'd, yet Britain not betray'd Pope's Epiftles dies, as much rarer as he pleafes; fo that ligh may find a ready paffage through tranfparent fubftances Newton grace is charity, that whatever time is the opportunity of any other virtue, that time is the opporSpratt's Sermons tunity of charity We tried whether heat would, notwithftanding 2. Having the quality of comprifing much ; CoMerESSURE. # /. [from comprefs.} The aét or force of one body preflin compendious ; extenfive againft another So diffufive, fo. comprebenfive, fo catholick fo forcible a compre/Jure, dilate i Boyle's Spring of the Air CoMPREHE'NSIVELY. adv, [from comprebenfive.] In a comprehenfive manner CoMPREHE NSIVENESS. 7. /. [from comprebenfive.] The quality of includin To CoMPRI'NT. @. #. [comprimere, Lat. To print together; it is commonly taken, imi law, for the deceitful printing of another's copy, or book tor much in a few words or narrow compafs to the prejudice of the rightful propriePhillips's World of Words. To CoMPR1SE. v. a. [comprendre, compris, Compare the beauty and comprebenfivenefs o legends on ancient coins, Addif. on Ancient Medals French. To contain to comprehend to include 70 COMPRE'SS. @. a. [compreflus, Lat. 1. To force into a narrower compafs; t Neceflity of fhortnefs caufeth men to cut of impertinent difcourfes, and to comprife much matter in few words. HaokeroDo -they not; under doétrine, comprehend thefame that we intedd by matters of faith? Do no {queeze together 2. T'o embrace Her Neptune eyed, with bloom of beauty bleft And in his cave the yielding nymph compreft they Pope's Odyffey undes difcipline, comprife the regimen of the church Haokers >Tis the polluted love that multiplies But friendfhip does two fouls:in one comprifes Rofeommott There was in the ifland of To a young girl crompeffed by a genius, who delighted to affociate wit Pope the mufes 7. /. [from the verb.] Bolfters ComPrOBA'TION.. 7. f. [comprobo, Lat. Co'mpPrESS of linen, by which furgeons fuit their Proof; atteftation That is only efteemed a legal teftimony, whic bandages for any particular part or pure batio recei compr from the mouths of at leaf pole RQuincy. two witnefles I applied an intercipient about the ankle an upper part of the foot, and by comprefs and bandag Wifernan dreffed it up Brown. CO''MPROMISE. 7. /. [compromiffum, La tin. 1. Compromife is a mutual promife of tw ComrrEssiBYLITY. 7. /. [from com'The quality of being compreffible. or more parties at difference, to refer preflible ; the quality of admitting t the ending of their controverfies to th be brought by force into a narrowe arbitrement or equity of one or mor compafs; as air may be comprefled, |. arbitrators Coavell but water can by no violence be re- -2, A compa& or bargain, in which {ome duced to lefs fpace than it naturally oc- conceflions are made on each fide cupies ‘Wars have not wafted" it; for warr'd he hath not CoMPRE'SSIBLE. adj. [from comprefs.] But bafely yielded, Upon compromife Capable of being forced into a narThat which his anceftors atchiev'd with blows rower compafs ; yielding to preflure, f Shakefpeare's Richard 11 as that one part is .brought nearer to o Co'MPROMISE. w..a. [from the noun. another b compa adjuf t ; un comp T "1. Their being fpiral particles, accounts for th mutual conceffions :‘as, #bey compromifed elafticity of air; their being fpherical particles, the affair at a middle rate which gives free paflage to any heterogeneous.matter, accounts for air's being compreffible Cheyne's Philofophical Principles 2 In Shakefpear it means unufually to agcord ; to.agree. Laban and himfelf were compromis'd CoMPRE'SSIBLENESS. #, /. [from: com- That allithe yearlings, whichwere ftreak'd amd pied; preffible.] Capability of being preffe Should fall as: Jacob's hire clofe Di&. all Rogers Shake[peare's Merchant of ¥enice . Knowledge ; capacity ; power of the CompRrE'SSION. 7 /. [compreffio, Latin.] CoMPRrROMISSO'RIAL. -adf. [from comproThe a& of bringing the parts of an - mind to admit and contain many idea mife.}. Relatin to a.compromife body more near to. each other by vioat once ‘ .CoMPROVI'NCIAL.. #. f. L [from. con coz: an 2nd lence ; the quality of admitting {uch an You give no proof of decay of your judgment, prov ncia i Bel ngi t th fam pro- and comprebenfion of all things, within the compaf W dients of it, and digeft them into one prefcription we muft at laft fix on this wife and religious aphorifm in my text, as the fum and comprebenfion o of an human underftanding Dryden 4. [In rhetorick.] A trope or figure, b which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for the whele, o a definite number for an indefinite ComPrEHE'NSIVE adj [fro Harris compre hend. 1. Having the power to comprehen underftand many things at once or He muft have been a man of a moft wonderfu comprebenfive nature, becaufe he has taken into th sompafs of his Canterbury Talcs the various man effart of force as may compel the hod comprefled into a narrower {pace Whenever a folid bod is prefled ther is a | inward tumult in the parts, fecking to delive themfelves from the compreffion; and this is th Bacon caufe of all violent-motion The powder in fhot, being dilated into fuch moiftur rits in the- nature of a liquid body fometimes recoiling Tears. are the effe@ Bacon comprefion of th of the brain, upon dilatation of the {pi of th Bacon's Natural Hiffory Merry Michaely, the Cornifh post, piped thi upon his oaten pipe for'merry England, but wit a mocking compreffion for Normapdy,. Camd. Rens. At the confecration.of an archbithopy all his com provincials ought to give their attendance. Ayliffe's Parergon COMPT. n.[. [compte; Fr.. compurus, Lag Account ;- compatation ;. reckoning. flame as endureth nokcompreffion, moveth in round the flame bein vince You fervant Have theiis,, themfelves,, and* wha eve is- theirs, ia compt To make their andit at your highnefs® pleafure Still to return your own. Shakefp. King Fobr Lo COMPT.. v. a.. [comprer, French.] T 4 Zo uf no W number. t comput Count, which {ee. C€o'MPTIBLES |