The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.
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