COMPREHEND, COMPREHENDED, COMPREHENDING, COMPREHENSIBLE, COMPREHENSION
ADJECTIVES
► CAPABLE able to comprehend or perceive → 1561 obs.
► CAPACE able to comprehend or take in with the mind → 1555 obs.
► FATHOMABLE comprehensible, intelligible → 1633
► IMPALPABLE not easily comprehended; incapable of being readily grasped or apprehended by the mind → 1774
► ON fully comprehending the nature of; well aware of → 1876 US sl.
INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► BINGO! an exclamation denoting sudden action, success, or comprehension → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► DOCITY ► DOSSITY quick comprehension; ability; spirit, animation → 1746 Eng. dial.
► IDOCITY quick comprehension, ability → 1905 Eng. dial .(Bk.)
► PERCEIT comprehension, perception, understanding → 1399 obs.
► RECKONING comprehension, understanding, knowledge → 1891 Eng. dial.
► UPTAKE comprehension, intelligence, understanding → 1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► UPTAKING comprehension, understanding → 1709 Sc. obs.
VERBS
► AYETE to comprehend, to understand; to recognize, to perceive → 1000 obs.
► BEFONG to comprehend, to encompass, to enclose → 971 obs.
► CAPISH to comprehend, to understand → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CHART to comprehend, to commit to memory → 1960 US sl.
► COLLY to understand, to comprehend → 1941 Amer. dial., esp. African-American
► FACULTY to comprehend, to understand → 1934 Amer. dial.
► FEATURE to comprehend, to imagine, to believe → 1934 Amer. dial.
► GET IT IN ONE to immediately comprehend or grasp a situation → 1942 sl.
► GET TABS ON to comprehend → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► GORK to understand; to comprehend → 1971 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► HAVE EYES IN ONE’S HEAD to be able to comprehend, perceive, or recognize something; to have good sense → 1579
► HAVE to comprehend, to understand; to have a knowledge of → 1893 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► IN to take in mentally, to comprehend → 1603 obs.
► INTAKE to comprehend, to understand, to ‘take in’ → 1886 Eng. dial.
► LATCH to comprehend, to grasp with the mind → 1000 obs.
► NICK to comprehend → 1702 sl.
► READ to comprehend fully, to understand, to perceive; to estimate truly → 1867 Eng. dial.
► SKILL to comprehend, to understand → 1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TUMBLE TO THE RACKET to comprehend, to understand; to perceive; to get accustomed to a thing → 1883 Eng. dial.
► TWIG ON TO to comprehend → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► UMBELOUK to comprehend, to include → 1357 obs.
► UNDERFONG to comprehend; to conceive → a1300 obs.
► UPPER-HATCH to comprehend, to understand → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► UPTAKE to comprehend, to understand → 1898 Sc.