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单词 prehension
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prehensionn.

Brit. /prᵻˈhɛnʃn/, U.S. /priˈhɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/, /prəˈhɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prehension-, prehensio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin prehension-, prehensio action of seizing (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), action of observing (late 4th or early 5th cent.; compare classical Latin prēnsiō prension n.) < classical Latin prehēns- , past participial stem of prehendere prehend v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French, French préhension action of grasping with the mind (1404 as prehencion), action of seizing or arresting a person (1510 as preension), action of physically grasping something (1572), (of animals) action of grasping with the paws (1798).In some instances perhaps shortened < apprehension n. With sense 3 compare later prension n.
1.
a. Seizure or arrest in the name of the law; = apprehension n. 3. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun]
attachmenta1325
arresting1424
arrest1440
arrestment1474
restc1500
attach1508
attaching1515
deprehension1527
prehension1534
apprehending1563
apprehension1577
cog-shoulder1604
caption1609
deprension1654
nap1655
arrestation1792
body-snatching1840
shoulder-tap1842
collar1865
fall1883
nicking1883
cop1886
pinch1900
pickup1908
1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 6 §9 The nexte sessions..to be holden after the prehension or attachement of such offendour.
1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) i. xii. 66 The ancient Conseruator of the Peace, who had onely Coertion or Prehension in a few cases.
1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal iii. 39 To get the better of that Prehension of yours, the first thing we'll go about shall be to pull the Stocks up by the Roots, launch them into the Sea, and let the Goodwin Sand be the better for them.
1795 W. Macarty Let. 2 Feb. in Early Amer. Trade with Mauritius (1954) 31 The Assembly have Assumed a right of Prehension as they Call it, by which they have taken, at Different times, Cargoes, and fixd their own Price for them.
a1832 J. Bentham Princ. Judicial Procedure xxii, in Wks. (1843) II. 116 Prehension, applied to things, will be with reference to—1. A thing immoveable... 2. A thing moveable... 3. A stock of things moveable.
b. The action of taking possession of something, occupation. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun]
takingc1230
occupationa1325
prehension1880
1880 J. B. Phear Aryan Village Introd. 15 The prehension and clearing of a definite tract of ground, and..arrangements for tilling..it.
2. Chiefly Zoology. The action of physically grasping or holding something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] > laying hold or seizing
gripinga1300
arrestc1386
gripe1393
seizingc1400
henting1440
kippingc1440
prensation1620
gripping1632
apprehension1646
comprehension1712
prehension1807
1807 W. Lawrence in tr. J. F. Blumenbach Short Syst. Compar. Anat. ii. Additions 92 Such as have the fingers united by the integuments, or enclosed in hoofs, lose all power of prehension.
1833 C. Bell Hand (1834) 159 The bill of the bird..is the organ of prehension and of touch.
1884 Contemp. Rev. July 39 Food cannot be got without powers of prehension.
1910 W. P. Pycraft Hist. Birds xxiii. 368 The fore-limbs, from their specialisation, cannot be used as organs of prehension for conveying food to the mouth.
1940 A. Gesell et al. First Five Years Life iii. 25 The 40-week old infant can pick up a crumb with precise pincer prehension.
1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe viii. 294/2 Two pairs of antennae are usually well developed, and often used for locomotion or prehension.
3.
a. The action of grasping with the mind; mental apprehension. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] > understanding, comprehension
knowing1340
taking1395
apprehending1398
feela1400
conceitc1405
perceitc1460
comprehension?15..
intellection?1526
apprension1589
making-outa1601
reception1612
uptaking1614
perceivancy1649
comprehending1668
recognition1749
prehension1836
prension1837
wavelength1925
1836 J. Abbott Way to do Good ix. 294 There is something in man which enables him to seize, as it were, by direct prehension, what is true and right when it is distinctly presented to him.
1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 375/2 Mr. Churchill's instinctive prehension of her claims to fashionable distinction.
1998 D. W. Goldie Crit. Difference iii. 190 Calling for a poetic 'new synthesis' that would synchronize an emotional and intellectual prehension and an aesthetic youthfulness.
b. Philosophy. Perception of and response to an object or event, irrespective of cognition; the interaction that exists between a subject and an entity or event; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > organism or process philosophy > elements of
prehension1925
process1926
1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World iv. 97 I will use the word ‘prehension’ for uncognitive apprehension: by this I mean apprehension which may or may not be cognitive.
1959 W. A. Christian Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics i. 12 A prehension is an operation in which an actual entity ‘grasps’ some other entity (actual or nonactual) and makes that entity an object of its experience.
1971 V. Lowe in D. Brown et al. Process Philos. & Christian Thought i. 7 A prehension is not so much a relation as a relating, or transition, which carries the object into the makeup of the subject.
1992 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 98 255 Pragmatists..are convinced that noncognitive prehensions have an intelligence all their own.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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