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- Comprehensive - a. - Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
- Comprehensive - a. - Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
- Comprehensive - a. - Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
- Comprehensively - adv. - In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.
- Comprehensiveness - n. - The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.
- Summary - a. - A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.
- Invertebrata - n. pl. - A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
- Broad Church - - A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship.
- Family - v. t. - A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
- Metabolia - n. pl. - A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.
- Paleichthyes - n. pl. - A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.
- Thesaurus - n. - A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
- Periscope - n. - A general or comprehensive view.
- Tour - v. t. - A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
- Sauropsida - n. pl. - A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.
- Gnathostoma - n. pl. - A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.
- Class - n. - A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
- Generalizer - n. - One who takes general or comprehensive views.
- Chordata - n. pl. - A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
- Institute - a. - Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.
- Good - n. - Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.
- Craniota - n. pl. - A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.
- Series - n. - Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
- Cnidaria - n. pl. - A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.
- Magic - a. - A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.
- Prognathi - n. pl. - A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
- Principle - n. - A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
- Comprehensively - adv. - In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.
- Aphorism - n. - A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.
- Money - n. - Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.
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