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apprehensible

[ ap-ri-hen-suh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. capable of being understood.


apprehensible

/ ˌæɪˈɛԲɪə /

adjective

  1. capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˌԲˈٲ, noun
  • ˌˈԲ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • p·ȴ·i·ٲ noun
  • p·s· adverb
  • ԴDza··ȴ·i·ٲ noun
  • ԴDza··s· adjective
  • ܲa··s· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of apprehensible1

1625–35; < Late Latin ŧԲ < Latin ŧԲ ( us ) grasped (past participle of apprehendere ), equivalent to apprehend- ( apprehend ) + -t ( us ) past participle suffix + -ibilis -ible
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One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.

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We might be disposed to regard the sacraments as this medium, because they are the instruments by which grace is conferred, in a manner apprehensible through the senses.

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For without imagination to represent, in a shape not merely abstract, things that have not come within personal experience, genius would remain limited to immediate intuition, and could not make its vision apprehensible by others.

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Many of the exhibitors showed great skill in making their methods apprehensible to the stranger.

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Discoverable only by reason, natural laws are immutable and universal, apprehensible by all men.

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