comprisal

English

Etymology

From comprise +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpɹaɪzəl/

Noun

comprisal (plural comprisals)

  1. The act of comprising or comprehending
  2. a compendium or epitome.

Quotations

1650s, Jakob Böhme, translated by John Ellistone, The Signature of All Things:
This Flagrat is effected in the Enkindling of the Fire; and in the Mortification of the Fire it impresses into itself from the Water's Original a Water, according to the Property of the Flagrat, which yet is rather Fire than Water, but its mortal Essence is Water according to the Property of the Flagrat; it is the Comprisal of all Properties, it brings forth in its Comprehension, viz. in the fiery Flagrat all Properties in itself, and apprehends the Property of the Light in its Powers, and also the Property of the dark Impression in its Powers, and makes all fiery
a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Folly of Slander”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
a comprisal […] and sum of all wickedness
1848, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life:
Such, however, has been the procedure in the present instance, and the result has been answerable to the coarseness of the process. By a comprisal of the petitio principii with the argumentum in circulo,—in plain English, by an easy logic, which begins with begging the question, and then moving in a circle, comes round to the point where it began,—each of the two divisions has been made to define the other by a mere reassertion of their assumed contrariety.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “comprisal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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