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APPREHENDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fully understood or grasped
Example:
a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known
Synonyms:
appreciated; apprehended; comprehended
Classified under:
Similar:
understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb apprehend
Context examples:
I apprehended it to be a rock, and found myself tossed more than ever.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear—and here would be a ninth—and Emma apprehended that it would be a ninth very much out of humour at not being able to come even to Hartfield for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He was doing all in his power to quiet everything, with the hope of Mrs. Rushworth's return, but was so much counteracted in Wimpole Street by the influence of Mr. Rushworth's mother, that the worst consequences might be apprehended.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude vulgar folks, who might squeeze me to death, or break one of my limbs by taking me in their hands.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Pray excuse me; but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We shall greatly miss Edmund in our small circle, but I trust and hope he will find the poor invalid in a less alarming state than might be apprehended, and that he will be able to bring him to Mansfield shortly, which Sir Thomas proposes should be done, and thinks best on every account, and I flatter myself the poor sufferer will soon be able to bear the removal without material inconvenience or injury.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores; but allowing for the proportion of all things between that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guineas would be in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He had always treated me more like a brother, than an inferior officer; and, hearing of my arrival, made me a visit, as I apprehended only out of friendship, for nothing passed more than what is usual after long absences.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I apprehended the arrow might be poisoned, and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it as well as I could.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
