prehend

English

Etymology

From Latin prehendere. See prehensile.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prehend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)