comprize

American  

[kuhm-prahyz] / kəmˈpraɪz /

verb (used with object)

comprized, comprizing

1. comprise.

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Other Word Forms

• comprizal
  noun
• comprizable
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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comprize comprized comprizing

To comprize my own Character in relation to Christianity, I was neither a Saint nor a Devil.

From Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) by Daniel Defoe

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 Frank Albert Fetter

I have reason to hope that the terms of peace will comprize most of the great objects we have in view, and in some points almost exceed our expectations.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks

I shall comprize, in one view, the state of Birmingham in eight different periods of time.

From An History of Birmingham (1783) by William Hutton

These cases have not been selected from a variety of others, but comprize the entire number which have fallen under my observation.

From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

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

As we shall see, the evening's proceedings in that upper room comprized much beside the ordinary observance of an annual festival.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage

Soone her garments loose      Vpgath'ring, in her bosome she comprized, 8 Well as she might, and to the Goddesse rose,    Whiles all her Nymphes did like a girlond her enclose.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser

"He will find all, or most of them, comprized in the Exercises."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

He, however, seriously observed of the last stanza repeated by him, that it nearly comprized all the advantages that wealth can give.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

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 Relation, though short, comprizing the main Particulats of what he had more fully told me in Discourse, I shall give it you with little or no variation from his own words.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg

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

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

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