apprendo

ap-prĕhendo ( adp-, Fleck., Baiter, Halm; app-, Kayser) ( poet. sometimes apprendo: adprendas, Caecil. ap. Gell. 15, 9;

apprensus,

Tac. A. 4, 8; Stat. S. 3, 4, 43;

apprendere,

Sil. 13, 653), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold upon, to seize, take hold of (class., esp. in prose; syn.: prehendo, comprehendo, cupio, arripio, corripio).

In gen.

Lit.:

Alterum alterā adprehendit eos manu,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 64, where Fleck. reads prehendit: Pone (me) apprendit pallio, * Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23:

adprehendens pallium suum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 30:

atomi aliae alias adprehendentes continuantur,

Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54:

adprehendit cornu altaris,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 2, 28:

vites sic claviculis adminicula tamquam manibus adprehendunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120:

morsu,

Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 84:

quantum adprehenderint tres digiti,

Quint. 1, 2, 26.—So of seizing hold of the hand, or embracing the person:

manum osculandi causā,

Suet. Tib. 72 (prehendere manum is found in Cic. Quint. 31, and id. de Or. 1, 56, 240):

manum adprehendere,

Vulg. Gen. 19, 16; id. Isa. 41, 13; ib. Marc. 1, 31; ib. Act. 3, 7:

quibus adprensis,

Tac. A. 4, 8 al.:

adprehensum deosculatur,

Vulg. Prov. 7, 13.—Also in entreaty:

conscientiā exter ritus adprehendit Caecilium, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Of discourse:

quidquid ego apprehenderam statim accusator extorquebat e manibus,

whatever I had brought forward, alleged, Cic. Clu. 19, 52:

nisi caute adprehenditur,

is laid hold of, employed, Quint. 10, 2, 3.—

To grasp with the mind, to understand, comprehend:

passio apprehensa,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 5, 70; Tert. adv. Val. 11.—

For complector, to embrace, include:

casum testamento,

Dig. 28, 2, 10:

personam filii (sc. in stipulatione),

ib. 45, 1, 56.—

Esp., to seize, to take, or lay hold of, to apprehend:

a militibus adprehensus,

Gell. 5, 14, 26:

furem adprehendere,

Dig. 13, 7, 11:

fugitivum,

ib. 11, 4, 1.—Hence,

lang., to take possession of:

adprehendere Hispanias,

Cic. Att. 10, 8 init. (cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 112: Pharon prehendit); and in gen. to lay hold of, to get, secure, obtain (eccl. Lat.):

adprehende vitam aeternam,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 12;

6, 19: justitiam,

righteousness, ib. Rom. 9, 30.—

As med. t., of disease, to seize:

Ubi libido veniet nauseae eumque adprehendit, decumbat etc.,

Cato, R. R. 156, 4.—So in gen. of fear, pain, trouble (eccl. Lat.):

tremor adprehendit eam,

Vulg. Jer. 49, 24:

dolor,

ib. 2 Macc. 9, 5:

angustia,

ib. Jer. 50, 43:

stupor,

ib. Luc. 5, 26:

tentatio,

ib. 1 Cor. 10, 13.

ap-prĕhendo ( adp-, Fleck., Baiter, Halm; app-, Kayser) ( poet. sometimes apprendo: adprendas, Caecil. ap. Gell. 15, 9;

apprensus,

Tac. A. 4, 8; Stat. S. 3, 4, 43;

apprendere,

Sil. 13, 653), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold upon, to seize, take hold of (class., esp. in prose; syn.: prehendo, comprehendo, cupio, arripio, corripio).

In gen.

Lit.:

Alterum alterā adprehendit eos manu,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 64, where Fleck. reads prehendit: Pone (me) apprendit pallio, * Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23:

adprehendens pallium suum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 30:

atomi aliae alias adprehendentes continuantur,

Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54:

adprehendit cornu altaris,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 2, 28:

vites sic claviculis adminicula tamquam manibus adprehendunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120:

morsu,

Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 84:

quantum adprehenderint tres digiti,

Quint. 1, 2, 26.—So of seizing hold of the hand, or embracing the person:

manum osculandi causā,

Suet. Tib. 72 (prehendere manum is found in Cic. Quint. 31, and id. de Or. 1, 56, 240):

manum adprehendere,

Vulg. Gen. 19, 16; id. Isa. 41, 13; ib. Marc. 1, 31; ib. Act. 3, 7:

quibus adprensis,

Tac. A. 4, 8 al.:

adprehensum deosculatur,

Vulg. Prov. 7, 13.—Also in entreaty:

conscientiā exter ritus adprehendit Caecilium, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Of discourse:

quidquid ego apprehenderam statim accusator extorquebat e manibus,

whatever I had brought forward, alleged, Cic. Clu. 19, 52:

nisi caute adprehenditur,

is laid hold of, employed, Quint. 10, 2, 3.—

To grasp with the mind, to understand, comprehend:

passio apprehensa,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 5, 70; Tert. adv. Val. 11.—

For complector, to embrace, include:

casum testamento,

Dig. 28, 2, 10:

personam filii (sc. in stipulatione),

ib. 45, 1, 56.—

Esp., to seize, to take, or lay hold of, to apprehend:

a militibus adprehensus,

Gell. 5, 14, 26:

furem adprehendere,

Dig. 13, 7, 11:

fugitivum,

ib. 11, 4, 1.—Hence,

lang., to take possession of:

adprehendere Hispanias,

Cic. Att. 10, 8 init. (cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 112: Pharon prehendit); and in gen. to lay hold of, to get, secure, obtain (eccl. Lat.):

adprehende vitam aeternam,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 12;

6, 19: justitiam,

righteousness, ib. Rom. 9, 30.—

As med. t., of disease, to seize:

Ubi libido veniet nauseae eumque adprehendit, decumbat etc.,

Cato, R. R. 156, 4.—So in gen. of fear, pain, trouble (eccl. Lat.):

tremor adprehendit eam,

Vulg. Jer. 49, 24:

dolor,

ib. 2 Macc. 9, 5:

angustia,

ib. Jer. 50, 43:

stupor,

ib. Luc. 5, 26:

tentatio,

ib. 1 Cor. 10, 13.