comprised

[ kuhm-prahyzd ]

adjective

1. included or contained:

   His write-up of the cancer experiment details the characteristics of all five cohorts and the comprised biopsy reports.

2. formed, put together, or constituted; made up of a number of different parts or individuals:

   These issues are to be addressed by the president of the college in consultation with the newly comprised committee.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of comprise ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of comprised¹

comprise ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. be comprised of. comprise ( def 4 ).

Example Sentences

He also characterized the antebellum North as “the mere cringing vassal of the South” and a section of the country that contained “lords” and “nobles” of its own that comprised an “aristocracy of the skin.”

From Salon

Frederick Douglass, too, was described by his friend James McCune Smith — the first African American to earn a medical degree — as having “passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul everything that is American.”

From Salon

I don’t imagine that even the woke-most of liberal Democrats is willing to dismiss that enormous chunk of the population as entirely comprised of unregenerate racists.

From Salon

The group - which prosecutors described as "merchants of death" - comprised mostly of Iraqi Kurds and were prosecuted after a Europe-wide operation in 2022 which led to arrests in Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

From BBC

The committee that year comprised largely Hall of Famers and executives of major league teams.

From Los Angeles Times