(Lat. comprehensio, from comprehendere, to seize), the act or quality of comprehending or containing. Also, capacity of the mind to understand, &c.

Rhetoric, a trope or figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite for an indefinite number.

Comprehension, Scheme of. See Britain, vol. v., p. 429.