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单词 apprehensible
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Definition of apprehensible in English:

apprehensible

adjective aprɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)lˌæprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l
archaic, literary
  • Capable of being understood or perceived.

    a bat whirred, apprehensible only from the displacement of air
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This capacity allows action - individual and collective - to orient meaningfully to realms of reality not immediately apprehensible through the senses, to pursue ends that transcend current circumstances and conditions.
    • The new popular poetry reminds literati that auditory poetry virtually always employs apprehensible formal patterns to shape its language.
    • It is immediately apprehensible, and needs to be seen again and again, because it remains puzzling, both as to its form and as to its meaning.
    • Too overt or apprehensible a verbal pattern seems old-fashioned to many poets.
    • As archetypes they are as apprehensible as Greek statuary.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin apprehensibilis, from Latin apprehendere (see apprehend).

Rhymes

comprehensible, defensible, distensible, extensible, ostensible, reprehensible, sensible
 
 

Definition of apprehensible in US English:

apprehensible

adjectiveˌaprəˈhensəb(ə)lˌæprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l
literary, archaic
  • Capable of being understood or perceived.

    a bat whirred, apprehensible only from the displacement of air
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is immediately apprehensible, and needs to be seen again and again, because it remains puzzling, both as to its form and as to its meaning.
    • The new popular poetry reminds literati that auditory poetry virtually always employs apprehensible formal patterns to shape its language.
    • Too overt or apprehensible a verbal pattern seems old-fashioned to many poets.
    • As archetypes they are as apprehensible as Greek statuary.
    • This capacity allows action - individual and collective - to orient meaningfully to realms of reality not immediately apprehensible through the senses, to pursue ends that transcend current circumstances and conditions.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin apprehensibilis, from Latin apprehendere (see apprehend).

 
 
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