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.

Verb

To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

* Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

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To believe in something created by one's own mind.

To assume.

To conjecture or guess.

To use one's imagination.

(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?