apprehensible
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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
But the marginal reading, "Expansion," has definite value; and the statement that "God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and God called the expansion, Heaven," has an apprehensible meaning.
From Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' by Ruskin, John
Let us retrace, but in such a form as to be apprehensible by all readers.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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