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Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience.
The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
One who appreciates.
Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation.
To be apprehensive; to fear.
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
To know or learn with certainty.
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
To take or seize; to take hold of.
of Apprehend
One who apprehends.
of Apprehend
The quality of being apprehensible.
Capable of being apprehended or conceived.
The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.