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Prehend

verb
1.
Take hold of; grab.  Synonyms: clutch, seize.  "She clutched her purse" , "The mother seized her child by the arm" , "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"



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"Prehend" Quotes from Famous Books



... neighbours, come, for here they be: here I left them, arrant thieves, rogues, coseners. I charge ye, as you will answer, 'prehend them; for they have undone me, and robb'd me, and made me the poorest freeman that ever kept ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley

... listen in dyspeptic Anglo-Saxon abashment to such a concerto of down-going suppen and coteletten and gemuese and down-gurgling Laubenheimer and Marcobrunner and Zeltinger and Brauneberger as one may not hear elsewhere in the palatinates. And here, in the preface to the night, one may prehend while again eating (for in Germany, you must know, one's eating is limited in so far as time and occasion are concerned only by the locks of the alimentary canal and the contumacy of the intestines) the grand democracy of this kaiser city. ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright



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