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Apprehend   /ˌæprɪhˈɛnd/   Listen
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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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... to the instructions moved by the gentleman from New York, because I see in them no advantage to anybody, and I apprehend from their adoption much evil to the country. It should be borne in mind, that, when we emancipated the black people we not only relieved ourselves from the institution of slavery, we not only conferred upon them their freedom, but we did more; we recognized their manhood, which, by ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 • George S. Boutwell
... insignificance, we have nothing to apprehend from the Hindus. Many have urged the necessity of upholding the influence of Moghuls to counterbalance the power of Hindus; but this should seem bad policy, as we would causelessly become obnoxious, and involve ourselves in ...
— The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan • H. G. Keene
... was Hemmings to her, at this time, to induce her to take this kind and charitable interest in him? I, gentlemen, am not so charitable as she professed to be; neither do I think you will be, gentlemen. I apprehend that the motive which actuated the taking in, the clothing and the obtaining a situation at Stewart's, was another motive altogether (immoderate laughter). What it was, I will leave you to conjecture. Look a little ...
— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe
... as some one pointed out, to discover that American humor is based on American dyspepsia. Yet the philosophers themselves have endeavored to explain it. Hazlitt held that to understand the ludicrous, we must first know what the serious is. And to apprehend the serious, what better course could be followed than to contemplate the serious—yes and ludicrous—findings of the philosophers in their attempts to define humor and to explain laughter. Consider Hobbes: "The ...
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... lost their fear in wonder, as the voice of the mermaid, growing more and more confident, pierced new roads for them—roads upon which the twilight closed at once; rays into a glory they felt, and trembled to feel, but could not apprehend, because the vision was of mere beauty, and music divorced from words is the last of arts ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch


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