prehend

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Etymology

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From Latin prehendere. See prehensile.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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prehend (third-person singular simple present prehends, present participle prehending, simple past and past participle prehended)

  1. (philosophy) To perceive in the manner of Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 214:
      Each of the four levels "prehends" the other, and so in the punning of words so frequent in hieroglyphic writing, we encounter a richer and more inclusive mode of thought than we are accustomed to.
  2. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

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