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de·p·re·hend

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To DEPREHENDverb

    Etymology: deprehendo, Latin.

    That wretched creature, being deprehended in that impiety, was held in ward. Richard Hooker, b. iii. s. 11.

    Who can believe men upon their own authority, that are once deprehended in so gross and impious an imposture. More.

    The motions of the minute parts of bodies, which do so great effects, have not been observed at all, because they are invisible, and incur not to the eye; but yet they are to be deprehended by experience. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 98.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Deprehendverb

    to take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend

  2. Deprehendverb

    to detect; to discover; to find out

  3. Etymology: [L. deprehendere, deprehensum; de- + prehendere to lay hold of, seize. See Prehensile.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Deprehend

    dep′re-hend, v.t. to catch, seize: to apprehend. [Through Fr. from L. deprehendĕrede, and prehendĕre, to take.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of deprehend in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of deprehend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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