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incomprehensive, a.|ɪnkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv|
[in-3.]
I. Not comprehensive.
1. Not understanding; deficient in mental grasp.
1652W. Hartley Infant-Baptism 10 To manifest charity where the object for reception of benefit is incomprehensive. 1777Sheridan Trip Scarb. i. ii, Thou art an incomprehensive coxcomb. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 852 Like an unskilful and incomprehensive general, who, heedless of the main breast-work of the battle, pursues his wing of victory beyond limits.
2. Not inclusive; not comprising all that it should or might.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry lxii. (1840) III. 406 A most incomprehensive and inaccurate title. 1851[implied in incomprehensiveness].
II.
†3. Not to be comprehended or understood; incomprehensible. Obs.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. iv. (1701) 134/2 The first are comprehensive, the second incomprehensive, the Soul being weak in the discernment thereof by reason of..motions, mutations, and many other causes. 1735H. Brooke Univ. Beauty iii. Poems, etc. 1789 I. 217 Within, while wisdom dwells replete, Incomprehensive through his sacred seat. 1791W. Taylor Lessing's Nathan i. (1868) 14 Methinks it brings us Just so much the nearer the incomprehensive First cause of preservation.
Hence incompreˈhensively adv.; incompreˈhensiveness (in quots. in sense 2).
1846Worcester cites Perry for Incomprehensiveness. 1851I. Taylor Wesley (1852) 81 The incomprehensiveness of the aspect under which it took its view of human nature. a1856Sir W. Hamilton (O.), These are received only upon trust, as incomprehensively revealed facts. |