comprize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Taste seems to comprize three orders or degrees in its universal comprehension.
From An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc. by Clifford, James L.
They comprize one of the oldest extant examples of French prose.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 40 days.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
These, together with other family members not reported as engaged in gainful occupations, constitute the agricultural population, and comprize more than one third of the total population of the country.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert
I shall comprize, in one view, the state of Birmingham in eight different periods of time.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
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