单词 | prehend |
释义 | prehendv. 1. transitive. To seize, arrest, grasp; to apprehend mentally. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)] i-lecchec1000 fang1016 hentOE takeOE alatchlOE catchc1275 wina1300 to take ina1387 attain1393 geta1400 overhent?a1400 restay?a1400 seizea1400 tachec1400 arrest1481 carrya1500 collara1535 snap1568 overgo1581 surprise1592 nibble1608 incaptivate1611 nicka1640 cop1704 chop1726 nail1735 to give a person the foot1767 capture1796 hooka1800 sniba1801 net1803 nib1819 prehend1831 corral1860 rope1877 a1605 J. Stow in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1866) Pref. p. xv (note) They were greatly blamed that prehended hym and comitted hym. a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) v. i. 60 Is not that Rebel Oliver, that Traytor to my year, Prehended yet? 1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. iii. iv. 178 That fair Lady, whose Thoughts prehended Mr. Glanville was in,..quitted her Closet. 1831 T. Hope Ess. Origin Man II. 76 Vegetables and animals..for pursuing, prehending, and appropriating to themselves the substances they want for their further support,..want new external organs. a1898 W. E. Gladstone in Diaries (1994) XII. 162 The element of study and a true promotion of divine learning are to be prehended, although with variety according to the nature of the case. 1922 Philos. Rev. 31 28 A judgement is true, not when the predicate becomes the subject, and not when it ‘corresponds’ (in any crude sense) with reality, but when as a whole it prehends what it sets out to prehend, namely, reality. 2. transitive. Philosophy. To apprehend with or without conscious formulation or cognition of the perceived object; to interact in time and space with (an object or event). Cf. prehension n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [verb (transitive)] > apprehend (in the philosophy of A. N. Whitehead) prehend1925 1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World vi. 153 Then the enduring pattern is a pattern of aspects within the complete pattern prehended into the unity of A. 1947 Mind 56 97 In certain circumstances, when a person ‘sees’ a physical object, he visually prehends that physical object... In other cases what he visually prehends is, not the physical object.., but a particular which stands in a certain relation to the visum. 1971 J. B. Cobb in D. Brown et al. Process Philos. & Christian Thought xii. 220 The new occasion prehends all the entities in its past. 2000 D. Brown in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 567/2 Each occasion ‘prehends’ in one way or another the external pressures upon it, and so takes change into itself and thus into the larger processes of which it is part. Derivatives preˈhended adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [adjective] > of organism or process philosophy prehended1907 prehensive1925 Whiteheadian1928 prehending1929 prehensible1947 1907 N.E.D. at Prehend Prehended. 1927 A. N. Whitehead in E. S. Brightman Proc. 6th Internat. Congr. Philos. 60 The eternal objects are said to have modes of ingression into the actual occasions. These modes define the objectivity of the prehended occasions in any one physical occasion. 1997 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 34 694/2 Prehended material was chewed more thoroughly prior to swallowing, which is consistent with results of comparisons of goats with sheep. preˈhending adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [adjective] > of organism or process philosophy prehended1907 prehensive1925 Whiteheadian1928 prehending1929 prehensible1947 1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 56 The essence of an actual entity consists solely in the fact that it is a prehending thing. 1989 Poetics Today 10 383 The infinite gradations of the white tablecloth could serve as a figure for that prehending mind as they form complex structural patterns from what they reflect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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