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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of grasping or seizing.
  2. n. Apprehension by the senses.
  3. n. Understanding.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of prehending, seizing, or taking hold.
  2. n. Apprehension; mental grasp.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the act of grasping or gripping something, especially with the hands

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

Etymologies

  1. Latin prehēnsiō, prehēnsiōn-, from prehēnsus, past participle of prehendere, to seize; see ghend- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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