apprehensible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- apprehensibility noun
- apprehensibly adverb
- nonapprehensibility noun
- nonapprehensible adjective
- unapprehensible adjective
Etymology
Origin of apprehensible
1625–35; < Late Latin apprehēnsibilis < Latin apprehēns ( us ) grasped (past participle of apprehendere ), equivalent to apprehend- ( apprehend ) + -t ( us ) past participle suffix + -ibilis -ible
Example Sentences
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One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.
From Washington Post
We might be disposed to regard the sacraments as this medium, because they are the instruments by which grace is conferred, in a manner apprehensible through the senses.
From Project Gutenberg
For without imagination to represent, in a shape not merely abstract, things that have not come within personal experience, genius would remain limited to immediate intuition, and could not make its vision apprehensible by others.
From Project Gutenberg
Many of the exhibitors showed great skill in making their methods apprehensible to the stranger.
From Project Gutenberg
Discoverable only by reason, natural laws are immutable and universal, apprehensible by all men.
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