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Comprehend vs Forstand - What's the difference?

comprehend | forstand |

As verbs the difference between comprehend and forstand

is that comprehend is to include, comprise; to contain while forstand is to stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way; block; oppose; withstand.

comprehend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
    • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
    • 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.
  • To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

    • Related terms

    * comprehensibility * comprehensible * comprehension * comprehensive * comprehensiveness * comprise ----

    forstand

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

  • To stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way; block; oppose; withstand.
  • * 1849 , John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England :
    • "As he would more of them had not wise God, Wierd forstood him, and the man's courage."
  • *1895 , The Medical News:
    • Hemophilia is a contraindication for vaginal hysterectomy, unless you have the time to build your patient up in order to forestand the shock.
  • * 1963 , Fredericus Theodorus Visser, An historical syntax of the English language: Volume 1, Part 3 :
    • A mighty angel there forstood them.
  • To understand; comprehend.
  • * 1878 , Samuel Smiles, Robert Dick: baker, of Thurso, geologist and botanist :
    • How can I forstand' your Professors, when they dinna ' forstand themselves."

    References

    * Wright, The English dialect dictionary , forstand. ----