Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who seizes or arrests.
- noun One who discerns or recognizes mentally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who apprehends.
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- noun
Agent noun ofapprehend ; one who apprehends.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who knows or apprehends
- noun a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice)
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Examples
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In other words, "actual restraint of the person" is perfectly legal if the apprehender reasonably believes a crime has been committed.
Jeff Norman: Bush Ringleaders Could Face Citizen Arrests for Torture 2009
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We hear it in the words of the old-lady Indian seer Florita Almada, possessor of common-sense recipes for high blood pressure, and apprehender of danger.
The Triumph of Roberto Bolaño Kerr, Sarah 2008
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KING: If there is an apprehender and if Jessica is alive, should he tell the apprehender things about her?
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The great apprehender with a vajra grappling-rope,
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The great apprehender with a vajra grappling-rope,
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KING: One of the more -- this is something people say more and more on the street -- why have we never heard from the young daughter who was there and two, someone came and did a drawing based on what she told them he, the apprehender, looked like.
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A slim form interposed itself between the Princess and her would-be apprehender.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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A slim form interposed itself between the Princess and her would-be apprehender.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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Aristotle, much later, was to talk of “the thought which thinks itself,” and the embryo of this notion may be contained in Heraclitus 'belief that the soul is both the apprehender of logos and in some sense identical with logos.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968
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The mind is the apprehender of the objects of the senses.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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