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prehensive, a.|prɪˈhɛnsɪv|
[f. L. prehens-, ppl. stem of prehendĕre (see prehend) + -ive.]
Capable of seizing or laying hold; = prehensile; pertaining to or involving prehension, esp. in sense 3 b. Also fig. Hence preˈhensiveness.
1857I. Taylor World of Mind xxiv. §885 Conscious of its want of a prehensive limb. 1886J. Sully Teacher's Handbk. Psychol. viii. 132 The discrimination and identification of the impression... This constitutes the first step in the process of perception. It may be marked off as the presentative or prehensive element. 1897A. Lang in Daily News 27 Sept. 6/5 At the Raj Kumar College..‘we had a higher ideal of fielding than most English schools’, perhaps a greater agility and prehensiveness. 1925A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) iv. 90 Things are separated by space, and are separated by time: but they are also together in space, and together in time, even if they be not contemporaneous. I will call their characters the ‘separative’ and the ‘prehensive’ characters of space-time. Ibid. 98 For Berkeley's mind, I substitute a process of prehensive unification. 1932D. Emmet Whitehead's Philos. of Organism iv. 87 Actual entities are..described as ‘prehensive occasions’, that is to say, events or concrete facts of becoming. 1937J. R. Firth Tongues of Men iii. 37 The very use of likeness and differences and the habitual comparison of ordered series of words assume the principle of ‘inter⁓related prehensiveness’ which may be called implication. 1941P. Hughes in P. A. Schilpp Philos. A. N. Whitehead vi. 278 This activity of perceptual adaptation is a concrescence of prehensive processes, each of which has the quality of the act as a whole. 1966Punch 13 Apr. 528/2, I shall propose to Longman to accept a work on the originality of Locke, Hobbes, and Hume, which well be as pioneer to a more prehensive work. 1974Nature 6 Dec. 514/3 Limbless thalidomide children who carry out reaching and prehensive tasks with their mouths and teeth. |