Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
To know or learn with certainty.
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
To be apprehensive; to fear.
To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
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【Apprehend】 and 【comprehend】 mean to lay hold of something with the mind so as to know it but together with their derivative nouns apprehension and comprehension are clearly distinguished in psychological use.
The infinite distances of space are too great for the human mind to 【comprehend】 .
She could not 【comprehend】 how someone would risk people's lives in that way.
【Apprehend】 may suggest a single act of the mind and 【comprehend】 a complex and laborious process, but this distinction is not so essential as that between imperfect and perfect understanding; thus, one apprehends many things (as infinity or beauty) which one can never 【comprehend】 ; one apprehends many things as a child (as mother love) which one does not 【comprehend】 until late in life. (see also: Arrest vs 【Apprehend】 vs Attach vs Detain and Foresee vs Foreknow vs Divine vs 【Apprehend】 vs Anticipate)
And I have tried to 【apprehend】 the Pythagorean power by which number holds away above the flux.
In all cases, you 【apprehend】 something that you were blind to before.
