comprehend
verb (used with object)
to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive.
self-comprehending
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a word derived from
comprehend.
Example Sentences
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A fortiori, must the infinite Person be self-conscious, and exhaustively self-comprehending.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Our self-comprehending Adam would confess that he knew himself only when he noted within him the lover of the infinite.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
Here I now take up the pen again and return in thought to London: that vast cockpit; still in pursuit of rest and self-comprehending peace of mind.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
The first duty of our self-comprehending Adam will be to look backward.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
Those who have held this to be universally true, have also received its logical sequence, that to the finite intellect God cannot appear self-comprehending.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
