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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of deprehend.

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  • And so the wicked counsall deprehended, honest and godly men left the Court and him in the handis of such, as by thare wicked counsall led him so far from God, that he falsefeid his promeise, dipt his handis in the bloode of the Sanctes of

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • And so war all these that war deprehended in the Castell dampned to perpetuall preasone; and so judged the ungodly, that after that in Scotland should Christ Jesus never have triumphed.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Search was maid for the doaris, but none could be deprehended; for the brethrein assembled thame selfis in such sorte, in companyes, synging psalmes, and prasing God, that the proudast of the ennemies war astonied.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • But our Cronikilles mack mentioun, that in the dayis of King James the First, about the year of God 1431, was deprehended in the Universitie of Sanctandrose, one named Paull

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • _France_ deprehended, among whom, one confessed to haue offered vnto his Deuill or Spirit a Beetle.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • And the rites of their bona dea, in which Publius Clodius was deprehended under the habit of a woman, were transacted with so much filth and villainous impurity, that they are scarce to be thought of without a trespass upon modesty.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • ** The Lady Arabella, who as you know was not long ago cen - sured for having, without the King's privity, entertained a motion of marriage, was again within these few days deprehended in the like treaty with my Lord of Beauchamp's second son, and both were called and examined yesterday at the court about it.

    Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812

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