appreciative (apreshiativ)

[ A ride in the Southern summer moonlight being an ever enjoyable romance to an appreciative nature. A. W. Tourgée , Fool's Errand, p. 132. appreciator (a-prē'shi-a-tor), n. [ appreciate + -or ; = F. appréciateur .] 1. One who appreciates. A discovery for which there was no permanent appreciDe Quincey, Hero dot us. IMG:content-1008.png:[blocks in formation] This yet I apprehend not; why to those Among whom God will deign to dwell on earth So many and so various laws are given. Milton , P. L., xii. 280. 4. To anticipate; expect; especially, to entertain suspicion or fear of. All things apprehending , nothing understanding. O, let my lady apprehend no fear. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. Shak., T. and C., iii. 2. A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken sleep. Shak., M. for M., iv. 2. 5. To hold in opinion; be of opinion concerning. See extract. When we would expre our opinion modestly, instead of saying, "This is my opinion," or "This is my judgment," which has the air of dogmaticalne , we say, "I conceive it to be thus-I imagine or apprehend it to be thus." Reid, Intellectual Powers, p. 19. = Syn. 2. To catch, arrest, capture.-3. Apprehend, Comprehend; to conceive, perceive, see, know. "We appre hend many truths which we do not comprehend. The great mystery, for instance, of the Holy Trinity-we lay hold upon it ( ad prehendo ), we hang upon it, our souls live by it; but we do not take it all in, we do not comprehend it. It belongs to the idea of God that he may be apprehended though not comprehended by his reasonable creatures; he has made them to know him, though not to know him all, to apprehend though not to comprehend him." Trench.4. To fear, dread, anticipate (with fear). seizes or arrests. - 2. One who discerns or rec ognizes mentally.