apprehensible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of apprehensible
1625–35; < Late Latin apprehēnsibilis < Latin apprehēns ( us ) grasped (past participle of apprehendere ), equivalent to apprehend- ( see apprehend) + -t ( us ) past participle suffix + -ibilis -ible
Example Sentences
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CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015
One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015
What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.
From Time Magazine Archive
The world knows God, either vaguely, as a deity to be feared for his power, and but dimly apprehended by man, or as a mere aggregate of laws divorced from any real, apprehensible personality.
From Amusement: A Force in Christian Training by Vincent, Marvin Richardson
Many of the exhibitors showed great skill in making their methods apprehensible to the stranger.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
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