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   Apprehension , n. [L. apprehensio: cf. F. appréhension. See Apprehend.]
   The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
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   The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
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   Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.
   Glanvill.
   
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   Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
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   ☞ In this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue.
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   To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension.
   South.
   
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   The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
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   Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
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   After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life.
   Addison.
   
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   Syn. -- Apprehension, Alarm.  Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; alarm arises from danger when announced as near at hand. Apprehension is calmer and more permanent; alarm is more agitating and transient.
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