An archaic or obsolete form meaning to comprehend or understand; to grasp or take in mentally.
An older variant of comprehend, from Latin 'comprehendere.' This form is primarily found in Middle and Early Modern English texts.
Comprehense is a linguistic fossil—it shows how English speakers experimented with different endings for Latin verbs (comprehend, comprehense, comprehensed) before settling on the modern form!
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