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apprehensible, a.|æprɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l|
[ad. L. apprehensibil-is (Tertull.), f. apprehens- ppl. stem of apprehend-ĕre: see apprehend and -ble. Cf. mod.Fr. appréhensible.]
Capable of being apprehended or grasped by the senses or intellect; liable to be felt emotionally (obs.) Const. by, to.
a1631Donne Select. (1840) 181 It is apprehensible by sense. 1632Sir T. Hawkins Unhappy Prosp. 95 Who wept not for himselfe; for an object so sad and apprehensible as this could not bend his gravity. a1716South 12 Serm. (1717) IV. 318 Discoursing of the Nature..of God in a language neither warrantable nor apprehensible. 1841De Quincey Rhet. (1860) 358 Apprehensible even to the uninstructed. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iii. vii. 151 A world of invisible beings..assuming forms, uttering tones, distilling odours, apprehensible by the soul of man. |