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Apprehend   /ˌæprɪhˈɛnd/   Listen
verb
Apprehend  v. t.  (past & past part. apprehended; pres. part. apprehending)  
1.
To take or seize; to take hold of. (Archaic) "We have two hands to apprehend it."
2.
Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
3.
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. "This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it." "The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them."
4.
To know or learn with certainty. (Obs.) "G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how."
5.
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. "The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence."
Synonyms: To catch; seize; arrest; detain; capture; conceive; understand; imagine; believe; fear; dread. To Apprehend, Comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehended many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. "We may apprehended much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters."


Apprehend  v. i.  
1.
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
2.
To be apprehensive; to fear. "It is worse to apprehend than to suffer."





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"Apprehend" Quotes from Famous Books



... water; but both hearing and asking questions; docile and patient, yet active and intelligent; knowing that the wisdom was to be communicated from without, but that it belongs to the vigorous exercise of the power within, to apprehend it, and to convert it ...
— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold
... religion of the state; and others have denied that, in the extensive money privileges conceded to Constantinople, he contemplated any but political principles. As to the first point, we apprehend that Constantine will be found not so much to have shrunk back in fear from installing Christianity in the seat of supremacy, as to have diverged in policy from our modern methods of such an installation. Our belief is, that according ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various
... speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? Time we may comprehend. It is but five days older than ourselves, and hath the same horoscope with the world; but to retire so far back as to apprehend a beginning, to give such an infinite start forwards as to conceive an end in an essence that we affirm hath neither the one nor the other, it puts my reason to St. Paul's sanctuary. My philosophy dares not ...
— Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' - an Appreciation • Alexander Whyte
... way the water was coming down. I said nothing, but I got up about five o'clock and took a look around. In a little while Stony Creek had risen three feet. I then knew that we were going to have a flood, but I did not apprehend any danger. The water soon flooded the streets, and boards and ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... silence followed, under the influence of which the three waiting candidates seemed visibly to droop, as if by a subtle instinct they began to apprehend misfortune. When, finally, Cicily spoke, it was in a ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan


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