APPREHEND

v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

4.
v.

To know or learn with certainty. [Obs.] G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.

5.
v.

To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence. Macaulay.

6.
v.

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

7.
v.

To be apprehensive; to fear. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. Rowe.

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