Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or grasping; seizure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of seizing with violence.
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- noun obsolete The act of
seizing withviolence .
Etymologies
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Latin prensatio, from prensare, prehensare, verb frequentative from prehendere to seize.
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