prehensive
/prɪˈhɛnsɪv/adjective
1Capable of grasping or holding; = prehensile.
2 Psychology and Philosophy. Relating to or involving a subject's apprehension of objects or events (which may or may not involve cognition); designating or relating to the interaction that exists between a subject and an entity or event.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), writer on theology, artist, and inventor. From classical Latin prehēns-, past participial stem of prehendere prehend + -ive.
- plotting board
- plottingly
- plotting machine
- plotting rod
- plotting table
- plot twist
- plotty
- plotwise
- plotz
- plouff
- plough
- ploughable
- plough-alms
- plough a lonely (or one's own) furrow
- ploughback
- ploughbeam
- plough bolt
- plough-boon
- ploughboote
- ploughbote
- ploughboy
- plough bullock
- plough clevis
- plough day
- plough driver