Comprehensio, Verbale. A taking: a comprehending, conteyning: perceyuing or vnderstanding: a spying out of a thing: a perde or full sentence in measure. vt Latior comprehensio. Quint. Comprehensio facta sensibus.Cic.Knowledge or vnderstanding by senses.Perptio & comprehensio. Cic.Perceyuing and vnderstãding.Certæ sententiæ comprehensio. Quint. Cogtiones comprehensionésque rerum. Cic.Imaginations and conceyuing of things.Verborum comprehensio.Cic.Comprehensio & ambitus ille verborum, (si sic periodum appellari placet) &c.Cic.A periode.Aliqua comprehensione dissentire. Quint. Comprehensio.Cic.The deprehÊding or spying out of ones sauit. Deuincire comprehensione, Cic.
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comprĕhensĭo (conp-), ōnis, f. [id.], a seizing or laying hold of with the hands. I. Prop. A. In gen. (very rare): ingressus, cursus, sessio, comprehensio, Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94; cf. id. Ac. 2, 47, 145.—B. Esp., a hostile seizure, arresting, catching, apprehending: sontium, Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18.—II.Trop.A. In philos. lang., of a mental comprehending, perceiving; and in concr., a comprehension, perception, idea, transl. of the Gr. katalhyis: mens amplectitur maxime cognitionem et istam kata/lhyin, quam, ut dixi, verbum e verbo exprimentes comprehensionem dicemus, cum ipsam per se amat, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 31; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 41 et saep.—In plur.: cogitationes comprehensionesque rerum, Cic. Fin. 3, 15, 49.—2.The power to unite and grasp as a whole things which belong together: quanta ... consequentium rerum cum primis conjunctio et comprehensio esset in nobis, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 147 Schoem. ad loc.—B. In rhet. 1.Expression, style, Cic. Or. 58, 198.—2. Esp., a period: ut comprehensio numerose et apte cadat, Cic. Or. 44, 149; cf. id. Brut. 44, 162; 8, 34; 37, 140 Orell. N. cr.;Quint. 9, 4, 124; 9, 115, 121 et saep.