单词 | prehension |
释义 | prehensionn. 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). < n.1534 |
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