apprehensible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
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
And the earlier philosophers, from Plato to Leibniz, had kept the human mind open for the thought of the universe as one idea behind all its physically apprehensible transformations.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
The contradiction, as it seems to us, resolves itself into an essential, easily apprehensible, if mystical, unity.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
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