prehensible

He came from living and working in an equally tricky and prehensible world.

In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997

Must your soul be torn to incom-prehensible bits or compressed into nothing, to leave no trace behind?

The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

His feet were large and the toes were long, almost prehensible.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

His feet were large and the toes were long, almost prehensible.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

His feet were large and the toes were long, almost prehensible.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

With his associated doc - trines of the total perversion of man and the incom - prehensible majesty of God, he banned, and had to ban, all ideas of a possible accommodation of God's com - mands to the needs of man: man was simply too low and mean, too near to zero in value and importance to deserve consideration, while God was too high up and too far away to concede it.

CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968

Ockham, for example, treated the former as philosophically incom - prehensible and religiously believable only on the basis of a special mode of knowing; the great Arab thinkers in Spain, especially the Averroists, raised doubts about personal immortality which were not without influence in the Christian West.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968

The role of symmetry in animate life is both crude and subtle, disquieting and incom - prehensible.

SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

TO WALK SPANISH; to "walk" a boy out of any place by the waistband of his trousers, or by any lower part easily prehensible.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

The peculiar prehensible power possessed by the hand of man is chiefly dependent upon the size and power of the thumb, which is more developed in him than it is in the highest apes.

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele