a. [ad. L. apprehensibil-is (Tertull.), f. apprehens- ppl. stem of apprehend-ĕre: see APPREHEND and -BLE. Cf. mod.Fr. appréhensible.] Capable of being apprehended or grasped by the senses or intellect; liable to be felt emotionally (obs.) Const. by, to.
a. 1631. Donne, Select. (1840), 181. It is apprehensible by sense.
1632. Sir T. Hawkins, trans. Mathieu’s Unhappy Prosperitie, 95. Who wept not for himselfe; for an object so sad and apprehensible as this could not bend his gravity.
a. 1716. South, 12 Serm. (1717), IV. 318. Discoursing of the Nature … of God in a language neither warrantable nor apprehensible.
1841. De Quincey, Rhet. (1860), 358. Apprehensible even to the uninstructed.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), II. III. vii. 151. A world of invisible beings … assuming forms, uttering tones, distilling odours, apprehensible by the soul of man.
