apprehension (4 tends to pass into the mod. sense ‘anticipation with dread’)
1.
seizure, arrest
3H6 III. ii. 122,
Lr. III. v. 20
“that he may be ready
for our apprehension.”
2.
physical perception
MND. III. ii. 178
“The ear more quick of
apprehension,”
Cor. II. iii. 232.
3.
mental perception,
understanding, grasp of mind
H5 III. vii. 150
“If the English had any
,”
Troil. II. iii. 125
“his evasion . . .
Cannot outfly our a-s,”
Ham. II. ii. 326 [iii. 319] “in how like a
god!”; quickness of wit Ado III. iv. 67; 1H6 II. iv. 102* (or,
conception, i.e. of my father and me).
4.
conception,
imagination
Meas. III. i. 76
“The sense of death is
most in ,”
R2 I. iii. 300
“the of the
good,”
Ham. IV. i. 11
“in this brainish ,”
Cym. IV. ii.
110.
