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Com`pre*hen`si*bil"i*ty (?), n.
The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of
being understood.

Com"pre*hen"si*ble (?), a. [L.
comprehensibilis: cf. F. compreéhensible.]
1. Capable of being comprehended, included,
or comprised.

Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not
comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of
it.

Bacon.

2. Capable of being understood;
intelligible; conceivable by the mind.

The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is
and what is not comprehensible by us.

Locke.

Com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness, n.
The quality of being comprehensible;
comprehensibility.

Com`pre*hen"si*bly, adv.
1. With great extent of signification;
comprehensively. Tillotson.

2. Intelligibly; in a manner to be
comprehended or understood.

Com`pre*hen"sion (?), n. [L.
comprehensio: cf. F. compréhension.]
1. The act of comprehending, containing, or
comprising; inclusion.


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