Comprehend vs Encompass - What's the difference?
comprehend | encompass | Synonyms |
* 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 form a circle around; to encircle.
To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
Encompass is a synonym of comprehend.
As verbs the difference between comprehend and encompass
is that comprehend is to include, comprise; to contain while encompass is to form a circle around; to encircle.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.
encompass
English
Verb
(es)- This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs.
- Drake encompassed the globe.