APPREHENDER
Ap`pre*hend"er, n.
Defn: One who apprehends.
APPREHENSIBIITY
Ap`pre*hen`si*bi"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.
APPREHENSIBLE
Ap`pre*hen"si*ble, a. Etym: [L. apprehensibilis. See Apprehend.]
Defn: Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by
faith." Bp. Hall.
— Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly, adv.
APPREHENSION
Ap`pre*hen"sion, n. Etym: [L. apprehensio: cf. F. appréhension. See
Apprehend.]
1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.
2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
3. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.