Cast_up vs Comprehend - What's the difference?
cast_up | comprehend | Related terms |
To wash something onto the shore.
To compute. (rfex)
*1913 ,
*:He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up , as if he were an endless psychological account.
To bring up as a reproach.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.
Cast_up is a related term of comprehend.
As verbs the difference between cast_up and comprehend
is that cast_up is to wash something onto the shore while comprehend is .cast_up
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comprehend
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(en verb)- And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
- In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.