different between apprehend vs reprehend
apprehend
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French apprehender (compare modern French appréhender), from Latin apprehendere. Compare Spanish aprehender.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æ.p?i?h?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
apprehend (third-person singular simple present apprehends, present participle apprehending, simple past and past participle apprehended)
- (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
- We have two hands to apprehend it.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
- (transitive) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
- 1858, William Ewart Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
- The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
- (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.
- c. 1700, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Characters: Or, the Manners of the Age (originally by Jean de La Bruyère)
- It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
- c. 1700, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Characters: Or, the Manners of the Age (originally by Jean de La Bruyère)
Usage notes
To apprehend, comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehend many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that He may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. We may apprehend much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters. --Trench.
(material dates from 1913)
Synonyms
- catch, seize, arrest, detain, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, dread
Derived terms
- apprehension
- misapprehend
Translations
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reprehend
English
Etymology
From Latin reprehend? (“I hold back, check, blame”), from re- (“back”) + prehend? (“I hold, seize”). Confer French reprendre (“to reprove”).
Verb
reprehend (third-person singular simple present reprehends, present participle reprehending, simple past and past participle reprehended)
- to criticize, to reprove
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:reprehend
Related terms
- apprehend
- comprehend
- reprehensible
- reprehension
Related terms
- reprise
- reprisal
- reprieve
See also
- criticize
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reprove
Further reading
- reprehend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- reprehend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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