The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . ments occurring previous to cerebral hemorrhage. prehendt (pre-bend), V. t. [< L. prelicndere,conlv. jirendere, lay hold of, gi-asp, seize, take;prub. orig. ^prxhendere, < prse, before, + -hen-dere {y/ hed) = Gr. ,ifavddiE;v (•/;!?«(), seize, = : see get^. Hence ult. ajqtrehcud, compre-hend, deprehend, reprehend, etc., ptrender, pre-hensile, prehension, etc., prized,ptrison, etc.] Taseize; take; apprehend. They were greatly blamed that prehended hy
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . ments occurring previous to cerebral hemorrhage. prehendt (pre-bend), V. t. [< L. prelicndere,conlv. jirendere, lay hold of, gi-asp, seize, take;prub. orig. ^prxhendere, < prse, before, + -hen-dere {y/ hed) = Gr. ,ifavddiE;v (•/;!?«(), seize, = : see get^. Hence ult. ajqtrehcud, compre-hend, deprehend, reprehend, etc., ptrender, pre-hensile, prehension, etc., prized,ptrison, etc.] Taseize; take; apprehend. They were greatly blamed that prehended hym and co-mitted hym. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Fnrnivall), Pref., p. xv. Is not that rebel Oliver, that traitor to my year,Prehended yet ?Middleton (and aiwttier\ Mayor of Queenborough, v. 1. prehensible (pre-hcnsi-bl), a. [= F. preiien-sible, < L. , pp. of prchendere, pron-fZpcr, lay hold of, seize: seeprehcnd.] Capableof being prehended, seized, or laiil hold of. prehensile (pre-hensil), a. [= F. priliensde,< L. prchetisns, pp. of preliendcre, hxy hold of,seize: see prehend.] Seizing or grasping; tak- h^r.,. Prehcnsile-tailed Porcupine {Chatontys sut>sfinoius). iug and holding; adapted for prehension; es-pecially, fitted for grasping or holding by fold-ing, wrappbig, or curving around tlie objectprehended: as, the prehensile tail of a monkeyor an opossum. Also prehensory. See cutabove, and cuts at Cebina; marmose, nnisk-caiy,ojMssum, and .spidcr-monlcey. In the Hippocampidie the caudal fln disappears, and becomes a prehenMite organ, by the aid of which tlicspecies lead a sedentary life. E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 328. prehension (pre-henshon), «. [= F. prehen-sion, rehensio{n-), prcusio(u-), a soiz- prehension inf;, < jyrcliniflen, jniuihrr, pp. prrlmixiis, layholil of, take: spo iirrhiii. , a dou-blet ot jirclicnsioii.] 1. The ac-t of preliemliiig,seizing, or taking hold. In a cruaturu of low tyjju the touch of food ex
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