Ap*pre"ci*a*tive (&?;), a. Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.
Ap*pre"ci*a*tive*ness, n. The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
Ap*pre"ci*a`tor (&?;), n. One who appreciates.
Ap*pre"ci*a*to*ry (&?;), a. Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*to*ri*ly (&?;), adv.
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Ap`pre*hend" (p`pr*hnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Apprehending.] [L. apprehendere; ad + prehendere to lay hold of, seize; prae before + -hendere (used only in comp.); akin to Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain, and E. get: cf. F. appréhender. See Prehensile, Get.] 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic]
We have two hands to apprehend it.
Jer. Taylor.
2. Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
3. To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
Fuller.
The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
Gladstone.