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132 words match “PREHEND”

SWEDENBORGIAN n.

the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spi…

-- To take in. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To w…

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.

To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me [Colloq.] Marryat.

UNCOMPREHENSIVE a.

Unable to comprehend. Narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots. South.

Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration. "Unconscious causes." Blackmore.

Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep. A crew who, under names of old renown . . . abused Fanatic Egyp…

To reprove; to reprehend. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

[poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend. Landor.

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or…

Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. [R.] Camden.

ner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice. Blackstone.