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What is "prehend"

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Prehend

Prehend \Pre*hend"\, v. t. [L. prehendere. See Prehensile.] To lay hold of; to seize. [Obs.]
--Middleton.

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prehend

vb. (context obsolete English) To lay hold of; to seize.

WordNet
prehend

v. take hold of; grab; "The salesclerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals" [syn: seize, clutch]

Usage examples of "prehend".

It was a matter of protective coloration: what cannot be comprehended is difficult to coerce.

Also, Prince Shimca's companion was ap prehended, attempting to escape.

When any point in the mediated chain is known (or experienced), that knowing or prehending is an immediate event in itself, an immediate "touching.

Whitehead's pre-hensive unification is the present, subjective holon passing as object into the succeeding present, subjective holon, so that every holon prehends its entire actual universe, and lives on in the prehensive unification of all its descendants ("causality")with, of course, the whole series showing gradation (hierarchy), depending upon the degree of creativity injected into the stream at any given moment.