prehends's Usage Examples:

The highest faculty of man, reason, intellectus, intellectualis visio, is that which is not content with the individual or partial, but grasps the whole and thereby comprehends the parts.

"The essence, indeed, comprehends all natures, and everything that exists is a portion of this essence, by participation in which everything that is hath its existence.

Hence it happens that a consular year, generally speaking, comprehends a part not only of two Julian years, but also of two civil years.

"It comprehends a number of independent groups.

That judgment is true which apprehends a thing as it is capable of being known to be; and that proposition is true which so asserts the thing to be.

This section comprehends three species only, known as Phalaropes or swimming sandpipers, which are distinguished by the membranes that fringe their toes, in two of the species forming marginal lobes,' and by the character of their lower plumage, which is as close as that of a duck.

Just as there is a faculty which apprehends beauty in the sphere of art, so there is in the sphere of ethics a faculty which determines the value of actions.

German New Guinea The German protectorate of New Guinea, so called after the island which contributes the greatest area, comprehends, besides Kaiser Wilhelms Land, the islands which are now commonly called the Bismarck Archipelago - viz.

The essence, indeed, comprehends all natures, and everything that exists is a portion of this essence, by participation in which everything that is hath its existence.

Synonyms:

rack, snatch up, catch, take, grapple, get hold of, clench, snatch, capture, arrest, cop, snap, collar, nab, get, pick up, nail, grab, take hold of, clutch, claw, clasp, clinch, grip, seize, apprehend,

Antonyms:

unclasp, undercharge, repel, get off, detach,