Definition of prehension

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Prehension (n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member..

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Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize..
Mystery :: Mystery (a.) A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension..
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..
Secure :: Secure (v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect..
Quail :: Quail (v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
Doubt :: Doubt (v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
Phase :: Phase (n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases..
Huddle :: Huddle (v. i.) To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd..
Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
Conceit :: Conceit (n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit..
Misprision :: Misprision (n.) The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
Seem :: Seem (a.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as..
Realize :: Realize (v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
Abstruse :: Abstruse (a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning..
Fat-brained :: Fat-brained (a.) Dull of apprehension.
Indistinctness :: Indistinctness (n.) The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision..
Error :: Error (n.) A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
Preapprehension :: Preapprehension (n.) An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge.
Misgive :: Misgive (v. t.) Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun..
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