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- verb Present participle of
comprise .
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Imams, a title comprising those who perform the service of the mosque on ordinary days, and those to whom pertain the ceremonies of circumcision, marriage, and burial; the Maazeens, or criers, who announce the hours of prayer; and the Cayuns, or common attendants of the mosque.
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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He then initiated a partnership with the Bauhaus to envision Geropolis, a dignified and thriving futuristic city of "elderly," which he defines as comprising people 40 and up.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jenn Kennedy 2011
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It is a major piece of research looking at ways to strengthen and improve the UK's civic functions, which it defines as comprising the myriad clubs, organisations and bodies which full outside the state and commercial sectors.
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Admittedly not in the same league as the films cited above, but the titles comprising this collection are nonetheless guilty pleasures non pareil... especially THE GIANT CLAW and THE WEREWOLF.
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Admittedly not in the same league as the films cited above, but the titles comprising this collection are nonetheless guilty pleasures non pareil... especially THE GIANT CLAW and THE WEREWOLF.
Archive 2007-12-09 2007
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A 2-foot bogey putt at the 18th hole was the final shot for Player, who joined Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus in comprising golf's Big Three of the 1960s.
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You will, therefore, immediately appreciate the economic significance of this vast drainage basin comprising a potential waterway, together with a potential reservoir of white power in the area of Canada where there is no coal or black power.
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Songs were most varied, comprising from the religious carol, the "complainte" and the ballad, down to the ordinary work song and dance.
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After learning to spell moderately well, for the sum of fifty cents each, he imparted his store of orthography to a number of slave boys, the place of instruction being an abandoned hut in a field, and the school-term comprising "four months of Sundays."
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Spanish colonial legislation, a whole title comprising seventy-nine laws is devoted to this subject.
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