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apprehender|æprɪˈhɛndə(r)|
Also 7 -or.
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who lays hold of or seizes; esp. one who seizes or arrests in the name of justice.
1608Chapman Byrons Trag. Plays II. 282 This short sword..which if I haue time To show my apprehendor, he, etc. 1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 65 How would the..number of malefactors be greater than that of apprehenders?
2. One who lays hold with the senses or mental faculties.
a1619Donne Biathan. (1644) 84 All these proceed from the indisposition and distempred taste of the apprehendor. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 639 Truth is bigger than our minds, and we are..rather apprehenders than comprehenders thereof. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 177 By ‘beholder’ is meant knower, or apprehender. |