See, translate, realize, sympathise, realise, infer, sympathize, empathize, read, empathise, interpret 'She did not understand her husband' 'I understand what she means' Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of Princeton's WordNet (3.00 / 1 vote) Rate these synonyms: Compare ANTICIPATE ARREST CATCH KNOWLEDGE.Īpprehend, comprehend, conceive, perceiveįail of, ignore, lose, misapprehend, misconceive, miss, overlook We can apprehend the will of God as revealed in conscience or the Scriptures we can conceive of certain attributes of Deity, as his truth and justice but no finite intelligence can comprehend the Divine Nature, in its majesty, power, and perfection. Many things may be apprehended which can not be comprehended a child can apprehend the distinction between right and wrong, yet the philosopher can not comprehend it in its fulness. That which we apprehend we catch, as with the hand that which we conceive we are able to analyze and recompose in our mind that which we comprehend, we, as it were, grasp around, take together, seize, embrace wholly within the mind.

Yet perceive is used in the figurative sense of seeing through to a conclusion, in a way for which usage would not allow us to substitute apprehend as, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet,' John iv, 19. We apprehend what is presented to the mind, whether through the senses or by any other means. We perceive what is presented through the senses.

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