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Definition of Apprehend
Apprehend

To take or seize; to take hold of.

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.

To know or learn with certainty.

To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.

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

To be apprehensive; to fear.

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Apprehend Quotations

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
Isaac Barrow

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks

Apprehend Translations

apprehend in German is erfassen, erfassen, verstehen
apprehend in Italian is capire
apprehend in Spanish is captar, aprehender

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