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apprehendere [CL] 1 to seize, occupy. b to take possession of. c (dep.). d to arrest. e to reach, arrive at. f to take on, assume (a form). [equus] partem feni tectorum avide adprehendens traxit ad se V. Cuthb. I 6; adprehendens eum de mento Bede HE V 2; stupor adprehendit audientes Ib. 19; c710 etsi [Pascha] saltim unum ex eis [diebus], hoc est ipsum septimum, adprehenderit (Ceolfrith) Ib. 21 p. 337.  b 1255 damus licenciam ‥ priori et fratribus ‥ ~endi, implendi seu adequandi ‥ fossata RGasc I sup. 50; s1310 ~erunt prior et capitulum jurisdiccionem Graystanes 33.  c antequam dominus apprehensus fuerit possessionem Bracton 25.  d si abierit domum non apprehensus vel divadiatus DB I 1.  e tempore regis Willelmi I, abbas Baldewinus, ‥ cum civitatem Italie que Lucas dicitur ~isset (Edm.) NLA II 618; s1401 exactor ‥ ,per vulgus invasus, vix mare per naviculam captatam ~it Ad. Usk 62.  f ~ere est suscipere speciem alicujus in quantum illius est species; ideoque nec aër speciem ‥ coloris ~it, quia non suscipit eam in quantum est species ejus Ps.-Gros. 490. 2 to grasp, understand (without full ‘comprehension’). b to apprise, inform. 671 haec [metra] ‥ brevi temporis intercapedine ~i nequaquam valebunt Aldh. Ep. 1 p. 477; per estimationem ~untur universalia; possunt ergo bruta animalia ~ere universalia J. Blund An. 258; desideratum et intellectum apprehensibilia sunt vel apprehensa Bacon VII 42.  b s1248 apprehensus rex, quasi motus in iram, fecit eos venire coram se Leg. Ant. Lond. 15.

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