comprize
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Let us comprize, in one moment, in this instant, NOW, our whole of being, and exclude alike the future and the past!'
From Almoran and Hamet by John Hawkesworth
There is indeed a double difficulty: the definition ought to comprize the aberrations of the lunatic, and fix the standard for the practitioner.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
In common language, it is made to signify both a moment and a number of years, consequently it does not comprize any stated time.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 40 days.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
These five heds comprize all the points in which the pictures are treated, but not each picture is treated from all five.
From Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery by George Henry Danton
What an elegant panegyrist you are! in three words you have comprized his eulogium, which I should have spent hours about, and not so compleated at last.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
The elements of the language are comprized in twelve classes of simple sounds or monosyllables, from the different combinations of which all the words of the Mantchoo language are formed.
The Land Bountiful.—This comprized the northerly part of South America, extending to the Isthmus of Panama.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
Rabbinism comprized as an essential element the doctrine of the equal authority of oral rabbinical tradition with the written word of the law.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
He, however, seriously observed of the last stanza repeated by him, that it nearly comprized all the advantages that wealth can give.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
Denmark consists of the islands in the Baltic, and the peninsula lying in the north-west of Germany, comprizing Jutland, Sleswig, and Holstein.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
From the year 1748, to 1794, comprizing a period of forty-six years, there have been admitted into Bethlem Hospital 4832 women, and 4042 men.
From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
We have seen each in due progression comprizing the actions of a greater population than the foregoing, and for a greater period of time.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
The apostleship, comprizing all powers inherent in the Melchizedek Priesthood, was restored by the presiding apostles of old, Peter, James, and John.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
Aside from this towne, towards the North sea, extendeth a fruitfull veine of land, comprizing certayne parishes, which serueth better then any other place in Cornwall for Winter feeding, and suitably enricheth the Farmours.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew
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