apprehension Copy link Outline I. The act of arresting1. comprĕhensĭo2. prehĕnsĭo or prensĭoII. Conception, comprehensum, understanding; q. v. Phr.III. Opinion, notion; q. v.IV. Fear of future evil • apprehension: I. The act of arresting: 1. comprĕhensĭo: the a. of the guilty, sontium c., Cic. 2. prehĕnsĭo or prensĭo: the tribunes of the people had the right of a., tribuni plebis prensionem habebant, Att. Capit. et Varr. ap. Gell.: v. arrest. II. Conception, comprehensum, understanding; q. v. Phr.: a man of quick a., homo perspicax, Ter.: persons untaught and slow of a., indocti stolidique, Hor.--Note. As philos. t. t., Sir W. Hamilton gives apprehensio simplex (i. e. simple apprehension), "das Begreifen" (Reid, p. 708, a). III. Opinion, notion; q. v. IV. Fear of future evil: spēs, ei., f. (a neutral word): the reality was bad, the a. much worse, res mala, s. multo asperior, Sall.: he found the rest safe, contrary to his a., cetera contra s. salva invenit, Liv.: Lucan: v. fear, expectation. Phr.: I shall not cease to have a.s about Carthage, until I hear that she is rased to the ground, non desinam vereri de Carthagine, donec penitus excisam cognovero, Cic.
APPREHENSION Copy link • APPREHENSIONcomprehensio (act of seizing; of arresting; e.g., sontium, Cic..): prehensio (in a judicial sense; e.g., jus prehensionis habere, of arrest). Mental conception, captus (manner of apprehending; in classical prose, only in the phrase ut est captus alicujus or aliquorum): vis percipiendi (faculty of comprehending): intelligentia (power of understanding; understanding; post-Augustan, intellectus): intelligendi prudentia or prudentia (the understanding as a faculty, and a clear view into the nature of things obtained by its means, Cic., De Or., 1, 20, 90; and Partitiones Oratoriae, 8, 29): ingenium (mental powers generally; quickness, talents). Quickness of apprehension, celeritas percipiendi; celeritas ingenii. Quick of apprehension, docilis: in aliquo est ingenii docilitas (easily learning): perspicax (seeing clearly through a thing). Slow of apprehension, indocilis: tardus: stupidus. To descend to the apprehension of one’s audience, ad intelligentiam audientium or auditorum descendere. Suited, adapted, etc., to the apprehension of ordinary men, ad sensum popularem vulgaremque or ad commune judicium popularemque intelligentiam accommodatus or accommodate; intelligentia a vulgari non remotus: to descend to the apprehension of one’s pupils, of beginners, ad intelligentiam discentium descendere; se summittere ad mensuram discentium (Quint.): to be beyond our apprehension, fugere intelligently nostrae vim: to sharpen apprehensions, ingenium or intelligendi prudentiam acuere. Notion, opinion, Vid: Fear, anxiety, Vid.