Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To seize; take; apprehend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To lay hold of; to seize.
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- verb obsolete To lay hold of; to
seize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take hold of; grab
Etymologies
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Examples
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This ability to prehend is precisely its portion of creativity.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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Ford argues, by elimination, that a future creativity must be the source of an occasion's ability to prehend.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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According to Ford, an additional mode of influence must be posited, for one must account for an actual entity's ability to prehend.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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Subjected to the random, you acknowledge your inability to prehend logic and linear systems. com - royal flush barbecue sauce garage door openers antenna La Quinta three lemons plastic bucket woofer touch-tone calling card We generate stories for you because you don't save the ones that are yours.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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Although Jubal Clay was a prudent businessman who could com - prehend the financial advantages a war with Mexico might yield, he was, like his ancestors, primarily a military man, and now he asked:
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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Caramon gasped, unable - for a moment - to com - prehend what had happened.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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Caramon gasped, unable - for a moment - to com - prehend what had happened.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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Only the small J knowledge of this day, a little aided by what the mirrorm could share with him, though he was unable even to corn-1 prehend the learning long since lost.
Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975
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This unifying and coordinating principle, she thought, has enabled geography to com - prehend vast accumulations of facts, and for the first time raised it to the level of a science.
ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968
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Cicero divided arts into those which only com - prehend things (animo cernunt) and those which make them (Academica II 7, 22); today we consider the first category as sciences, not as arts.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
knitandpurl commented on the word prehend
The Chambers Dictionary (New Ninth Edition) also defines this as "to apprehend without conscious perception."
November 9, 2008