Synonyms:
appreciated, apprehended, comprehended
Meaning: fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"
Usage examples
For, suppose he were apprehended, we have no proof against him.
Now the nature and power of the soul are apprehended through its operation, which is to a certain extent its end.
Drowsily he apprehended the beginning of the end. His senses, growing numb with cold, presently must cease to function altogether.
Shanks set out on his errand immediately,--and John, fearing that he should be apprehended and punished for the crime he had committed, at the same time went off towards Caneadea.
No; if by any freak of good fortune, any exertion of wit or daring, that one were to be apprehended, it must be within the next few minutes, it could only be through immediate pursuit.
At length, she revived, and, looking feebly up at her niece, whose tears were falling over her, made an effort to speak, but her words were unintelligible, and Emily again apprehended she was dying.
The ancients, however, not properly realizing the force of intelligence, and failing to make a proper distinction between sense and intellect, thought that nothing existed in the world but what could be apprehended by sense and imagination.
His own views and his quotations from the views of others about the static and dynamic theories of distribution are examples of an important principle so imperfectly expressed as to make us doubtful whether it is perfectly apprehended by the writer.
Pray excuse me; but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.