Obs. rare. [f. COMPRISE + -URE.] Comprehension, compass; a summary.

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a. 1641.  Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 39. Those books be of wondrous Art and Comprisure. Ibid., 149. The 24. verse is a generall summe, or comprisure, of things intended to be performed.

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