Definition of apprehend

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Apprehend (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose..

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Familiar :: Familiar (n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused..
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime..
Cognitive :: Cognitive (a.) Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power..
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose..
Nice :: Nice (superl.) Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions; distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem..
Incognizance :: Incognizance (n.) Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice..
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..
Feeling :: Feeling (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
Unknown :: Unknown (a.) Not known; not apprehended.
Noumenon :: Noumenon (n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers..
Comprehend :: Comprehend (v. t.) To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical..
Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties..
Ideation :: Ideation (n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.
Envisage :: Envisage (v. t.) To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.
Misapprehend :: Misapprehend (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
Represent :: Represent (v. t.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3..
Hear :: Hear (v. i.) To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen.
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