apprehender

In other words, "actual restraint of the person" is perfectly legal if the apprehender reasonably believes a crime has been committed.

Jeff Norman: Bush Ringleaders Could Face Citizen Arrests for Torture 2009

We hear it in the words of the old-lady Indian seer Florita Almada, possessor of common-sense recipes for high blood pressure, and apprehender of danger.

The Triumph of Roberto Bolaño Kerr, Sarah 2008

KING: If there is an apprehender and if Jessica is alive, should he tell the apprehender things about her?

CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2005 2005

The great apprehender with a vajra grappling-rope,

A Concert of Names of Manjushri 2004

The great apprehender with a vajra grappling-rope,

A Concert of Names of Manjushri 2004

KING: One of the more -- this is something people say more and more on the street -- why have we never heard from the young daughter who was there and two, someone came and did a drawing based on what she told them he, the apprehender, looked like.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2002 2002

A slim form interposed itself between the Princess and her would-be apprehender.

Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978

A slim form interposed itself between the Princess and her would-be apprehender.

Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978

Aristotle, much later, was to talk of “the thought which thinks itself,” and the embryo of this notion may be contained in Heraclitus 'belief that the soul is both the apprehender of logos and in some sense identical with logos.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

The mind is the apprehender of the objects of the senses.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli