Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Apprehend, 1) to take, to seize: “which I --ed with the aforesaid swain,” LLL I, 1, 276. “in private brabble did we a. him,” Tw. V, 68. Tw. V, 68 “whom we have --ed in the fact,” H6B II, 1, 173. Tim. I, 1, 212. “where we may a. her and the Moor,” Oth. I, 1, 178. Especially to arrest: Err. I, 2, 4. Wiv. IV, 5, 119. H5 II, 2, 2. IV, 7, 165. 8, 18. H6C III, 1, 71. Cor. III, 1, 173. Rom. V, 3, 53. Rom. V, 3, 53 Lr. I, 2, 83. II, 1, 110. Oth. I, 2, 77.
2) to seize by the mind, to conceive, to form a conception; a) absolutely: “you a. passing shrewdly,” Ado II, 1, 84 (you have a shrewd way of thinking, of forming ideas). “to a. thus, draws us a profit from all things we see,” Cymb. III, 3, 17. b) followed by an acc.: “a man that --s death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep,” Meas. IV, 2, 149. V, 486. “fantasies that a. more than cool reason ever comprehends,” Mids. V, 5. “a. some joy,” Mids. V, 5 “a. nothing but jollity,” Wint. IV, 4, 24. “he --s a world of figures,” H4A I, 3, 209. H4B I, 1, 176. “and --ed here the unknown Ajax,” Troil. III, 3, 124. “a. no fear,” III, 2, 80.