apprehensible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- apprehensibility noun
- apprehensibly adverb
- nonapprehensibility noun
- nonapprehensible adjective
- unapprehensible adjective
Etymology
Origin of apprehensible
1625–35; < Late Latin apprehēnsibilis < Latin apprehēns ( us ) grasped (past participle of apprehendere ), equivalent to apprehend- ( see apprehend) + -t ( us ) past participle suffix + -ibilis -ible
Example Sentences
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CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015
One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015
What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surely this obscure and doubtful passage, on a subject simple and apprehensible enough in Holy Scripture, is something different to what ought to be expected from a profoundly learned ruler of the church.
From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 by Wightman, George
It is a spectacle which, apprehensible to the mind alone, enables the beholder to create, not phantoms, but verities, and in so doing, to merit immortality, if mortal may.”
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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