It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Rowe.
Ap`pre*hend"er (&?;), n. One who apprehends.
Ap`pre*hen`si*bi"i*ty (&?;), n. The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.
Ap`pre*hen"si*ble (&?;), a. [L. apprehensibilis. See Apprehend.] Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by faith." Bp. Hall. -- Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly, adv.
Ap`pre*hen"sion (&?;), n. [L. apprehensio: cf. F. appréhension. See Apprehend.] 1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.
2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
3. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.
Glanvill.