Guest guest Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 U wrote " Is it meaningful to speak of the existence of something that can't be apprehended?" Indeed it is because by asking the question you get that answer that u might have to use another instrument to find the answer! Read the Jung quote again: The longest journey many of us have to travel is from the head to the heart. This is why I chose to use the word apprehend - it gives a choice of finding out imho........ at least that is what I was trying to say! I put the emphasis on speaking, a mental pursuit. Perhaps i should have said 'only' apprehended! Guess at 88 1/2 I am truly gettin' addlepated! Forgive me! love ao Got it, thanks. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Apprehend is such a great word! http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/9799 apprehend, v. Pronunciation:  /æprɪˈhÉ›nd/ Etymology: < French appréhende-r (15th cent. in Godefroy), < Latin app-, adprehend-Ä•re... (Show More)  I. Physical.  a. To lay hold upon, seize, with hands, teeth, etc. Also said of fire, andfig. of trembling, fear, etc. Obs. or arch. 1572    J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 5,  A great quakyng and tremblyng dyd apprehende hys hande. 1607    E. Topsell Hist. Fovre-footed Beastes 156  His dogs‥apprehending the garments of passengers. 1613    Life I in Harl. Misc. (1793) 28  A fire began‥which apprehending certain shops and warehouses, etc. c1643    Maximes Unf. 8  Fury and affrightment apprehend the desperate. 1645    S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 63  A lame hand that cannot apprehend. 1843    E.  Sensation & Event 122  While those two lips his brow did apprehend. Thesaurus » †b. transf. To seize upon, take down, in writing. fig. To seize upon (points of a subject). Obs. 1611    T. Coryate Crudities sig. Nn5v,  I apprehended it [sc. an epitaph] with my pen while the Preacher was in his pulpit. 1615    T.  Spirituall Nauigator 24 in Blacke Devill,  I will onely apprehend so much, as may serue to exemplifie this dangerous world.  2. To seize (a person) in name of law, to arrest. 1548    N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. New Test. I. vii. 1 (R.)  To fynde sum occasion‥to attache and apprehende him. 1642    D.  Naaman 44  ‥going like a Pursivant‥to Damascus, to apprehend the Saints there. 1768    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 287  A justice of the peace cannot issue a warrant to apprehend a felon upon bare suspicion. 1855    T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 328  Troops had been sent to apprehend him. †3. To seize upon for one's own, take possession of. Also fig. Obs. a1522    G.  tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. vii. 70  Ellis quhar‥forto wend, Thar duellyng place for ay to apprehend. 1611    Bible (A.V.) Phil. iii. 12  If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Iesus. 1652    M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 21  That Vacancies are his who apprehend's them first by occupation. †4. To seize or embrace (an offer or opportunity). 1586    T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 805  If we apprehend not that great grace and mercy of the father offered to all. a1631    J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §5  If he apprehend not, an opportunity to escape. 1633    Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 56  His faith, whereby he did firmely apprehend the‥aid of his eternall Father.  II. Mental. †5. gen. To learn, gain practical acquaintance with. Also absol. (The earliest use in English; cf. French apprendre.) Obs. a1398    J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii.ii. 61  He‥holdeth in mynde‥withoute forÈœeting alle þat he apprehendith. 1531    T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xiii. sig. ciij,  Therby they prouoke many men to apprehende vertue. a1680    S.  Genuine Remains (1759) I. 204  Children‥Improve their nat'ral Talents without Care, And apprehend, before they are aware.  6. To become or be conscious by the senses of (any external impression). a1634    W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianae Flamma (1635) 60  When this Light shone in darkenesse, and our darkenesse, though it apprehended, yet it comprehended it not. 1651    T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 212  That caused Agar supernaturally to apprehend a voice from heaven. 1855    A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. i. 369  If I see‥two candle flames, I apprehend them as different objects. †7. To feel emotionally, be sensible of, feel the force of. Obs. 1592    T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I, The‥soules of them that haue no power to apprehend such felicitie. 1607    B. Jonson Volpone ii. i. 61  Dead. Lord! how deepely Sir you apprehend it. 1670    I. Walton Lives,  That [kindness] was so gratefully apprehended by M. Hooker.  8. To lay hold of with the intellect:  a. to perceive the existence of, recognize, see. 1577    T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 5,  Who so doth not understand or apprehend this righteousness in afflictions and terrors of conscience. 1623    C.  Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. A2,  There is not halfe that worth in Mee, Which I haue apprehended in a Bee. 1743    J.  Serm. vii. 184  We shall apprehend reason to conclude, that‥they were not so very young. 1872    R. Browning Fifine lxxi. 7  Each man‥avails him of what worth He apprehends in you.  b. to catch the meaning or idea of; to understand. 1631    T. Heywood Londons Jus Honorarium 279  As soone known as showne, and apprehended as read. 1755    B.  Mag. Arts & Sci. i. xiii. 87  This is all so plain, that I can't but apprehend it. 1849    T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 463  The nature of the long contest between the Stuarts and their parliaments, was indeed very imperfectly apprehended by foreign statesmen. 1871    C. Davies Metric Syst. ii. 24  To apprehend distinctly the signification of a number, two things are necessary.  c. absol. or with subord. clause. 1600    Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 73  Cosin you apprehend passing shrewdly. 1655    T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 92  Periander‥immediately apprehended that he advised him to put the most eminent in the City to death. 1712    R. Steele Spectator No. 532. â‹2,  I cannot apprehend where lyes the trifling in all this. 1785    T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. i,  No one can explain by a Logical Definition what it is to think, to apprehend.  9. a. To understand (a thing to be so and so); to conceive, consider, view, take (it) as. 1639    T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. ix. 183  They apprehended it a great courtesie done unto them. 1736    J. Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 100,  I apprehended myself to be near death. 1858    W. E. Gladstone Homer III. 393  The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. b. absol. or with subord. clause. 1631    B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iv. 44 in Wks. II,  If hee apprehend you flout him, once, he will flie at you. 1775    J. Lyon in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 101,  I apprehend that secrecy is as necessary now as ever it was. 1839    H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe iv. vi. 462  In general, I apprehend, the later French critics, have given the preference to Racine. 10. To anticipate, look forward to, expect (mostly things adverse). a1616    Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 144  A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken sleepe. 1749    H. Fielding Tom  I. iii. iii. 168  A triumphant Question, to which he had apprehended no Answer. 1879    A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand ii. 11  Love had taught her with unerring accuracy to apprehend the evil which impended.  11. To anticipate with fear or dread; to be fearful concerning; to fear. Thesaurus »  a. with obj. 1609    Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. ii. 71  O let my Lady apprehend no feare. 1643    Sir T. Browne Relig. Medici i. §54  Which makes me much apprehend the ends of those honest Worthies. 1702    Eng. Theophrastus 53  He apprehends every breath of air as much as if it were a Hurricane. 1832    H. eau Hill & Valley xiii. 125  No one‥could think‥that any further violence was to be apprehended.  b. with subord. clause. To be apprehensive, to fear. 1740–61    M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 210,  I don't apprehend that even the Bath could hurt her. 1863    N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 193,  I sometimes apprehend that our institutions may perish. apprehend, v. Second edition, 1989; online version June 2011. <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/9799>; accessed 29 June 2011. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1885 > > > > U wrote " Is it meaningful to speak of the existence of something that can't be apprehended? " > > Indeed it is because by asking the question you get that answer that u might have to use another instrument to find the answer! Read the Jung quote again: The longest journey many of us have to travel is from the head to the heart. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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