ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  1.  Taken hold of, seized; arrested.

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1597.  Daniel, Civ. Wares, VI. lviii. Th’ apprehended Duke.

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  2.  Laid hold of by the mind, conceived.

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1668.  Howe, Bless. Righteous (1825), 129. Lord! whence is this apprehended inconsistency?

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1880.  Cyples, Hum. Exp., i. 17. The intellectually-apprehended Executive System.

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  3.  Anticipated (with aversion), dreaded.

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1742.  Richardson, Pamela, IV. 7. When the apprehended Time shall be over.

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1825.  Southey, Paraguay, iv. 29. On Monnema the apprehended ill Came first.

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