apprehender

[Eng. apprehend; -er.] One who apprehends in any of the senses of that verb. "Gro apprehend ers may not think it any more strange, than that a bullet should be moved by the rarefied fire."-Glanville. ǎp-prě-hěnd'-ing, pr. par., a., & s. [APPREHEND.] A. As pa. par. & adj.: In senses coгтеsponding to those of the verb. B. As substantive: Apprehension. IMG:content-0653.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Able to be apprehended, in a lit. or fig. sense. ". in reality it exacts so powerful an effort on the part of the reader to realise visually, or make into an apprehensible unity, the scattered elements and circumstances of external landscapes painted only by words..."-De -De Quincey: (ed. 1863), p. 173.