apprehend (1 the commonest meaning; mod. sense ‘anticipate with dread’ barely appears; cf. Troil. III. ii. 78)
1.
to seize,
arrest Oth. I. i. 178, ii. 77.
2.
to understand
Ado II. i. 85
“you apprehend passing
shrewdly,”
Cym. III. iii. 17.
3.
to conceive, imagine
MND. V. i. 5,
1H4 I. iii. 209
“He apprehends a world
of figures here.”