apprehend

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.

   “[…] Angel ſignifieth there, nothing but God himſelf, that cauſed Agar ſupernaturally to apprehend a voice from heaven; or rather, nothing elſe but a Voice ſupernaturall, teſtifying Gods ſpeciall preſence there.”

2. fiil To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.

   “[E]ach man for his own sake / Accepts you as his guide, avails him of what worth / He apprehends in you to sublimate his earth / With fire: […]”

3. fiil To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.

   “This ſuſpicion of Earl Reimund, though at firſt but a buzze, ſoon got a ſting in the Kings head, and he violently apprehended it.”

4. fiil To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.

   “Tim[on]. That's a laſciuious apprehenſion. / Ape[mantus]. So, thou apprehend'ſt it, / Take it for thy labour.”

5. fiil To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.

   “O let my Lady apprehend no feare, / In all Cupids pageant there is preſented no monſter.”

6. fiil To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
7. fiil To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.

   “Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.”

8. fiil To feel (something) emotionally.

   “[H]ow it worketh in the mindes and soules of them that haue no power to apprehend such felicitie, it is not for me to intimate, because it is preiudiciall to our monarchie.”

9. fiil To learn (something).

   “Undowghtedly in a prince or noble man may be nothinge more excellent, ye nothing more necessarye, than to aduance men after the estimation of their goodnes; and that for two speciall commodities that do come thereof. Fyrste, that thereby they prouoke many men to apprehende vertue.”

10. fiil To take possession of (something); to seize.

    “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which alſo I am apprehended of Chriſt Jeſus.”

11. fiil To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.

    “Sir, if you haue a minde to mocke him, mocke him ſoftly, and looke to'ther way: for if hee apprehend you flout him, once, he will flie at you preſently. A terrible teſtie old fellow, and his name is Waſpe too.”

12. fiil To understand.

    “Coſin you apprehend paſſing ſhrewdly.”

13. fiil To be apprehensive; to fear.

    “Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.”