Comprehend vs Cogitate - What's the difference?
comprehend | cogitate |
* 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.
To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
* Francis Bacon
* 1953 ,
To consider, to devise.
As verbs the difference between comprehend and cogitate
is that comprehend is to include, comprise; to contain while cogitate is to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.comprehend
English
Verb
(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.
cogitate
English
Verb
(cogitat)- He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
- Think, ladies! Cogitate ! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.