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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prehend .
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Examples
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I was the more uneasy at it, as I ap-prehended, that the situation of the Bologna family was more unhappy than when I left that city.
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Her treatment at home, as she ap-prehended, was not answerable to her merits.
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With this torrent from the tropics in her veins, she was the most equable person I ever saw, and had a supreme and delicate good-sense, which, if not supplying the place of genius, at least com - prehended its work.
Oldport Days 1873
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Unless the works are com - prehended which his words explained, the words are
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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These states are not com - prehended and they are left without explanation except in Christian Science.
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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I thank you for the frequent Accots. you gave me of the Several Steps the Act of Parliamt took For releasing us from the bondage we were under in being prohibited from putting our Staple Commodity into such Shapes as we ap prehended would prove most advantageous to Our Support now tis
Letter from Robert Carter to Messrs. Haswell & Brooks, August 26, 1729 1729
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And it must be confessed, that the conduct and event of the winter operations proved very dilTerent from what the friends of Britain e. \pected, and the provincials ap - prehended.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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And it must be confessed, that the conduct and event of the winter operations proved very different from what the friends of Britain expected, and the provincials ap - prehended.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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In this fenfe of our Saviour*s words the gift was fpecial, adapted to the peculiar exigences of the perfons, and times of the Apoftles; — but in its more enlarged fig - nification all Chriftians are generally com - prehended, and are partakers of that peace, comfort, and fatisfadlion which aie the I 2 fruit
Sermons: By the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, ... ... John Hinchliffe 1796
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They are chiefly com - prehended within the order Decandria of the clafs Diadelphia, in the artificial fyftem. —
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