Word Meanings - COMPRISAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.

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• EPITOME
  1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith. 2. A compact or condensed
• COMPENDIUM
  A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts. Syn.
• COMPRISAL
  The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.
• BARROW
  A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain. (more info) 1. A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• COMPRISE
  To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon. Syn. -- To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply.
• COMPREHEND
  prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in 1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire. Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12. 2. To take in
• WICKEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• MISCOMPREHEND
  To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.
• SEA BARROW
  A sea purse.