appreciate 
Without study of his forms of metre nr his scheme of 
colours we shall certainly fail to ni'/n-eeinte or even to ap- 
Srehend the gist or the worth of a painter's or a i t 
csign. Sni ni, linn-, .Shakespeare, p. 8. 
4. To raise in value; advance the exchange, 
quotation, or price of: opposed to ili'/in-i-i/ili , 
Lest a sudden peace should iifijim-inii- th om-y. 
= Syn. Value, Prize, Ksteeia, K*tinlte, .l;.;;/v, -nil,-. 
Value and i-siiin-ile commonly imply a OOmparlsOD with a 
stall. lard of commercial worth: as, to mine a picture at 
so much; to extimnte its \alne at so miieh. To in-ize is to 
value highly, generally for other than pecuniary reasons. 
and luageKtiig the notion of reluctance to lose. Thus. 
we frrize a book for its eonteiits or associations; we 
prize a friend for his affection for us. To esteem is some 
times simply to think: as, I esteem him a semindivl; 
sometimes to value: as, I eiti-em it lightly; sonii-tinirs 
to have a high opinion of or set a high value on: as, 
I i-./i-riH him for his own sake ; in its highest sense it im- 
plies moral approbation. r'.xti mutiny is an act of compu- 
tation or judgment, and wholly without feeling or moral 
approbation: as, to ,.-n,,mi, -the si/e of a r n, the weight 
of a stone, the literary excellence of a book, the character 
of a person. (See esteem, n., for comparison of corre- 
sponding nouns.) Appreciate is to set a just value on ; 
it implies the use of wise judgment or delicate pereep 
tion: as, he n/i/ii-eeinteit the quality of the work. With 
this perception naturally goes a corresponding intellectual 
valuation and moral esteem : as, they knew how to appre- 
i-iitte his worth. Anin-eeinte often implies also that the 
tiling appreciated is likely to lie overlooked or underesti- 
mated. It is commonly used of good things : as I innler 
stood his wickedness; I renl !:><! nr ,-eeiiiinized his folly; I 
ni>/>eeeinfe:l his virtue or wisdom. Compare such phrases 
as an ttptiireintiee audience, a few appreeintire words, nf- 
fn-> eintirin, of merit. 
The pearls after removal from the dead oysters arc 
"classed" bypassing through a number of small brass 
cullenders. . . . Having been sized in this way, they arc 
sorted as to colour, weighed, and value, I. 
Kneiie. llril., XVIII. 447. 
For so it falls out, 
That what we have we prize not to the worth. 
Slink., Milch Ado, iv. 1. 
Though men esteem thee low of parentage. 
Hilton, V. R., i. 23f>. 
The truth is, we think lightly of Nature's penny shows, 
and estimate what we see by the cost of the ticket. 
l.uieell. Fireside Travels, p. 90. 
It will be soon enough to forget them [the ancientsj 
when we have the learning and the genius which will en- 
able us to attend to and appreciate them. 
Thorean, Walden, p. 113. 
II. in trans. To rise in value ; become of more 
value: as, public securities appreciated, when 
the debt was funded. 
appreciation (a-pre-shi-a'shon), . [=F. appre- 
ciation ; from the verb: see appreciate.} 1. 
The act of setting a price or money value on 
real, personal, or mercantile effects. 2. The 
act of estimating the qualities of things and 
giving them their due value ; clear perception 
or recognition of the quality or worth of any- 
thing; sympathetic understanding. 
What sort of theory is that which is not based upon a 
competent appreciation of well-observed facts and their 
relations? Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 205. 
Those who aim to be Christian teachers should be fully 
armed to contend for the truth, and should have a clear 
and intelligent appreciation of the weapons and tactics 
which may be employed against it. 
Dawson, Nat. and the Bible, p. 15. 
3. A rising in value ; increase of value. 
The appreciation of the metal which is our single stand- 
ard, and the consequent decline in prices, is one of the 
causes of [the] . . . depression of trade. 
Fortnightly Ret., XL. 481. 
4. In Scots law, the appraisement or valuing of 
poinded or distrained goods. 
appreciative (a-pre'shf-a-tiv), a. [< appreciate 
+ -ive; = F. apjireciatif, 'relating to valuation.] 
Capable of appreciating; manifesting due ap- 
preciation: as, an appreciative audience. 
A ride in the Southern summer moonlight being an ever- 
enjoyable romance to an appreciative nature. 
A. W. Touryee, Fool's Errand, p. 131 
[< appreciate 
One who appre- 
ciates. 
A discovery for which there was no permanent appreci- 
ator. De Quincey, Herodotus. 
2. An apparatus for determining the amount 
of gluten contained in a given quantity of 
flour. 
appreciatory (a-pre'shi-a-to-ri), . [< appre- 
ciate + -ory.~\ Expressive of admiration; ap- 
preciative : as, appreciatory words. 
appredicate (a-pred'i-kat), n. [< NL. appra;di- 
ea tit in (tr. of Gr. xpomaTrrjopoi'uevov), < L. ad, to, 
f ML. pru'dii'ittum, predicate.] The copula in 
a proposition. See copula. 
With Aristotle, the predicate includes the copula; and, 
from a hint by him, the latter has, by subsequent Greek 
logicians, been styled the apprt-ilienf, . 
Sir n'. Hamilton, Logic, I. 228. 
ppreciator (a-pre'shi-a-tor), n. 
T -or; = F. dppreciateur.] 1. 
277 
apprehend (up-re-hend' ), r. [< OF. appreln <// , 
mod. K. aiipri'lii-nili-r, apprehend, = Pr. apin'i- 
lii'iiilnr Sp. aprehender = Pg. ap/in liimli i , 
the older Horn, forms being contracted. OF. 
n/in-mln-, npi>ri'iiilrf, mod. K. ii/ijiri-iiiln; lenrn, 
con (> E. ii/ipi-rnil, obs.), = Pr. <i]>ri'ii<ln- Sp. 
ii/in-iiili-r = Pg. iipri-HiliT = It. iipiin-inlrri; (. L. 
apprcltcHili-i-i; inlpi-i-lii-iiili-i-i', pp. 
inl/ii-i-hi-iiKits, contr. n/i/ir* m/i ri', n.. t , rr _ 
ii/1/iri-HHH.i, ailpn-HxHx. lay hold upon, seize, un- 
derstand, comprehend, < ml, to, -t- jin-ln -mlr/ < . 
contr. prciiilrri', seize: see /n-i him/, /in:/ 1 , n/>- 
', ami (ipiiriyi' 1 , and cf. cumpri-hi-Hil. I'r/i- 
I. trans. If. To lay hold of; seize 
upon ; take possession of. 
That I may iipin-etiemi that for which also I am n/ipi-> - 
liemteil of Christ Jesus. I'hil. iii. 12. 
Appi-fheiut your places, he shall ! | ready! soon, and :it 
all points. B. Joii*<>n. Cynthia's Revels, v. -1, 
There is nothing but hath a double handle, or, at least, 
we have two hands to apprehend it. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, it i 6. 
2. To take into custody ; make prisoner ; arrest 
by legal warrant or authority. 
The robber . . . was rt;o"'' /"'"'"' selling his plunder. 
linl/lxinith. The Bee. Xo. 1. 
Hancock and Adams, though removed by their friends 
from the immediate vicinity of the force sent to appreheu-l 
them, were apprised, too faithfully, that the work of death 
was begun. l-'rerett, Orations, p. 88. 
3. To take into the mind : seize or grasp men- 
tally; take cognizance of. (o) To perceive; learn 
by the senses. (6) To learn the character or quality of : 
become acquainted or familiar with. 
He seems to hear a Heavenly Friend, 
And thro' thick veils to apprehend 
A labour working to an end. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
(r) To imagine, especially an object of desire or dread ; 
form a concrete conception of: frequently opposed to 
eiiniprehend or ntten,i. 
He apprehends a world of figures here. 
But not the form of what he should attend. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. :t. 
(rf) To understand ; take an intelligent view of. 
This yet I apprehend not ; why to those 
Among whom God will deign to dwell on earth 
So many and so various laws are given. 
Milton, t. L., xii. 280. 
4. To anticipate ; expect; especially, to enter- 
tain suspicion or fear of. 
All things apprehending, nothing understanding. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
0, let my lady apprehend no fear. 
Shak., T. andC., iii. 2. 
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but 
as a drunken sleep. Shak., M. for M., iv. 2. 
5. To hold in opinion; be of opinion concern- 
ing. See extract. 
When we would express our opinion modestly, Instead 
of saying, "This is my opinion," or "This is my judg- 
ment," which has the air of dogmaticalness, we say, "I 
conceive it to be thus I imagine or apprehend it to be 
thus." Reid, Intellectual Powers, p. 19. 
= Syn. 2. To catch, arrest, capture. 3. Apprehend, Com- 
prehend ; to conceive, perceive, see, know. "Vie appre- 
hend many truths which we do not comprehend. The great 
mystery, for instance, of the Holy Trinity we lay hold 
upon it (ad prehendo), we hang upon it, our souls live by 
it ; but we do not take it all in, we do not comprehend it. 
It belongs to the idea of God that he may be apprehended 
though not comprehended by his reasonable creatures ; he 
has made them to know him, though not to know him all, 
to apprehend though not to comprehend him." Trenth. 
4. To fear, dread, anticipate (with fear). 
II. intrans. 1. To imagine; form a concrete 
conception of anything ; have intellectual per- 
ception ; catch the idea or meaning. 
You apprehend passing shrewdly. 
Shak., Much Ado, it. 1. 
Put it into his hand ; 'tis only there 
He apprehends : he has his feeling left. 
B. Jonson, The Fox, I. 1. 
Men that are in fault 
Can subtly apprehend when others aim 
At what they do amiss. 
Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 2. 
To apprehend notionally is to have breadth of mind, but 
to be shallow ; to apprehend really is to be deep, but to be 
narrow-minded. J. II. Newman, Gram, of Assent, p. 32. 
2. To believe or be of opinion, but without 
positive certainty : used as a modest way of in- 
troducing an opinion: as, all this is true, but 
we apprehend it is not to the purpose. 
This, we apprehend, is a mistake. 
Goldsmith, Versification. 
There are sentiments on some subjects which I appre- 
hend might be displeasing to the country. 
Jefferson, in Bancroft's Hist. Const., I. 437. 
3. To be apprehensive ; be in fear of a future 
evil. 
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. Rome. 
apprehensive 
apprehender (ap-re-hen'der), n. 1. One who 
seizes or arrests. 2. One who discerns or rec- 
ognizes mentally. 
apprehensibility (ap-re-hen-si-bH'i-ti), . [< 
'ii-iixibli- : see -liiliti/.] The capability of 
understood, or the quality of being ap- 
prehensible. 
Simplicity and popular n[>in'>li--n*iln'fi/>f will ! . 
li, Tr aimed at. WMtnty, Life and (Jruwth of Lang., p. 6. 
apprehensible (np-re-hen'si-bl), a. [< LL. ii ]>- 
IH-tlii-iixihilix, < L. iippri-ln -ntuix, pp. of iiii/irilii-H- 
(li/'i, apprehend: see ii/i/iriliiin/.} Capable of 
being apprehended or understood; possible to 
be eonceive.l by tile human intellect. 
It [Greek philosophy! s-i-'dii- ;tt> ,1 the intrll'-.t and ron- 
sri( lire a* to render tile (iospt-1 nj'i Hid, ill 
many coses, congenial to the mind. 
Ii. /'. Fisher, Begin, of Christianity, p. 140. 
apprehension (ap-re-hen'shon), ii. [= F. H/I/II -i'- 
In iixinii, < L. n/'/ir( In Hnin(ii-), < ii/i/ii-flit mli re, pp. 
appi-i/iinxiix: see <i/i/ii-</i/n<l.~\ 1. The act of 
seizing or taking hold of; prehension: as, the 
hand is the organ of ///';// iiximi. [Rare.] 2. 
The act of arresting or seizing by legal process ; 
arrest ; seizure : as, the thief, after his /;//<- 
hi-HxiiiH, escaped. 
The increase in the number of ajiprehenswns for drunk- 
Rae, Cont. Socialism, p. 345. 
3. A laying hold by the mind; mental grasp; 
the act or faculty (a) of perceiving anything by 
the senses ; (l>) of learning or becoming familiar 
with anything; (c) of forming an image in the 
imagination (the common meaning in English 
for three centuries, and the technical meaning 
in the Kantian theory of cognition); (d) of 
catching the meaning of anything said or writ- 
ten; (c) of simple apprehension (which see, 
below) ; (/) of attention to something present 
to the imagination. 
In apprehension, how like a god ! Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
They have happy wits and excellent apprehensions. 
Burton, Anal, of Mel., p. 233. 
To be false, and to lie thought false, is all one in respect 
of men who act, not according to truth, but apprehension. 
South. 
Apprehension then is simply an understanding of the 
idea or fact which a proposition enunciates. 
J. //. yeicman, Gram, of Assent, p. 18. 
The proper administration of outward things will always 
rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 215. 
Whatever makes a large impression upon the senses is, 
other things being equal, easy of apprehension, even when 
not of comprehension. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 352. 
4. Anticipation of adversity ; dread or fear of 
coming evil ; distrust of the future. 
The sense of death is most in apprehension. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 
As he was possessed of integrity and honour, I was under 
no apprehensions from throwing him naked into the am- 
phitheatre of life. Goldsmith, Vicar, iii. 
Let a man front the object of his worst apprehension, 
and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 215. 
Simple apprehension (ML., simplex apprehensio, flrst 
used by Jean Buridan, in the fourteenth century), in nomi- 
nalistie logic, conception without judgment ; the thinking 
of a name aa distinguished from the thinking of a propo- 
sition : called simple because a term is simple compared 
with a proposition. Synthesis of apprehension, in the 
Kantian philosophy, that operation of the mind by which 
the manifold of intuition is collected into definite images. 
It is called pure when the manifold operated upon is that 
of pure space and time. = Syn. 3. Comprehension, under- 
standing, idea, notion. 4. Alarm, Apprehension, Fright, 
etc. (see alarm), disquiet, dread, anxiety, misgiving, solici- 
tude, nervousness, fearfulness. 
apprehensive (ap-re-hen'siv), a. [= F. appre- 
fiensif, anxious, \ L. apprelienxus, pp. of appre- 
hendere: see apprehend."] It. In the habit of 
seizing; ready to catch or seize; desirous to lay 
hold of : used literally and figuratively. 
I shall be very apprehensive of any occasions wherein I 
may do any kind offices. Lord Strafford, Letters, II. 390. 
2. Quick to learn or understand ; quick of ap- 
prehension. 
A good sherris-sack . . . ascends me into the brain ; . . . 
makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, 
fiery, and delectable shapes. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 
An understanding dull'd by th' infelicity 
Of constant sorrow is not apprehensive 
In pregnant novelty. Ford, Lady's Trial, iv. 1. 
Is there a surer way of achieving the boast of Themisto- 
cles, that he knew how to make a small State a great one, 
than by making it wise, bright, knowing, apprehensive, 
quick-witted, ingenious, thoughtful? 
R. Choate, Addresses, p. 111. 
3. Realizing ; conscious ; cognizant. [Rare.] 
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and 
folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive, of it. 
Jer. Taylor. 
4. In a state of apprehension or fear ; feeling 
alarm ; fearful. 
The leading reformers . . . began to be apprehensive for 
their lives. Gladstone, Church and State, vii. 
