ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Taken hold of, seized; arrested.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, VI. lviii. Th apprehended Duke.
2. Laid hold of by the mind, conceived.
1668. Howe, Bless. Righteous (1825), 129. Lord! whence is this apprehended inconsistency?
1880. Cyples, Hum. Exp., i. 17. The intellectually-apprehended Executive System.
3. Anticipated (with aversion), dreaded.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 7. When the apprehended Time shall be over.
1825. Southey, Paraguay, iv. 29. On Monnema the apprehended ill Came first.