He has a strong prehension for an old man. From LearnThat.org.
Alfred North Whitehead, in Process and Reality, introduces the notion of prehension, that interiority is fundamental all the way down to the most basic levels of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness Timeline: 1875-1945] Reference
And with com-prehension will come the certainty of despair. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
Then, after that first moment of reply, swift ap - prehension and warning. From Wordnik.com. [Three Against The Witch World]
The joints, moreover, of the fingers are well constructed for prehension and for pressure. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
For were it not so placed all prehension would be as impossible, as were there no hand at all. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
But the point, prehension, and then all that is experiential brings growth, pain and so MUCH BEAUTY. From Wordnik.com. [Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon] Reference
Over the heel of his hand, she blinked away furious tears and stared at him in wide-eyed incom prehension. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast In Bed]
The mantis reminds one of a small, green monkey, the fore pair of legs being well developed and used in prehension. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
When the tongue is affected, it is swollen and painful, and prehension and mastication of the food may be impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
First was the cerebral gift of prehension, an outer coat of brilliance, enabling man's mind to think, even to reason. From Wordnik.com. [Progress: Man's Greatest Mistake] Reference
This is especially the case in the universe as conceived by process theism where feeling (prehension) is a metaphysical category. From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
Barrere a appelle si heureusement le droit de prehension, quoique le decret s'opposat, dans l'espece, a l'application de ce droit. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Sabin was glad to sit, for his mind was turning upon the news, working the information into the crevices where com - prehension lurked. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
For the hand, to take an example, requires one property to enable it to effect pressure, and another and different property for simple prehension. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
In testing the new approach, monkeys were trained to make prehension movements, reaching and grasping various objects located at different positions. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Measurement Devices to Move Injured or Artificial Limbs | Impact Lab] Reference
As Hartshorne notes, Whitehead's concept of prehension brings efficient causation and perception under a single category (Hartshorne 1984b, chapter 9). From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
The giraffe being endowed with an organ so exquisitely formed for prehension, instinctively puts it to use in a variety of ways, while in a state of confinement. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
My presence provoked tentative smiles and some ap - prehension, so I smiled reassurances and told the brightest of the lot what to put on Lord Tolo - camp's morning tray. From Wordnik.com. [Nerilka's Story]
Maybe she'd gone into the garden, to pick some last - minute fruit for dessert or bring in some washing, Cressy thought, subduing an unwelcome tingle of ap .. prehension. From Wordnik.com. [The Tycoon's Mistress]
Were we indeed to form prehension ofhis own deficiencies 1. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference
Delicate fleshy organs of prehension or touch possessed by many of the lower animals. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life] Reference
Augustus was delighted -- not so much at the acceptance of this guest, but his own wonderful prehension. From Wordnik.com. [The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel] Reference
Tentacula or TentaclesDelicate fleshy organs of prehension or touch possessed by many of the lower animals. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume] Reference
Although a fcranger, I lived m their villages without the leaft ap - prehension either of robbery or arTafïina. From Wordnik.com. [Travels round the world, in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771] Reference
The cerebellum is concerned with the coördination of movements necessary in equilibration, locomotion and prehension. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference
This kind of fear however is always superfluous, but most especially in those who are troubled with the ap - prehension. From Wordnik.com. [Practical piety; or, The influence of the religion of the heart on the conduct of the life] Reference
He nodded -- but I saw with a little deadly pang of ap - prehension in my heart a puzzled, lurking doubt within his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Therefore, we declare really is utterly beyond com - our ministry in the true Name of prehension. renews the creations day. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The pardon committee believed that he was sentenced under a misap - prehension, and that he was not guilty of larceny or any other crmie. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
Whitwell RL, Lambert LM, Goodale MA (2008) Grasping future events: explicit knowledge of the availability of visual feedback fails to reliably influence prehension. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Com - prehension is coterminous with man's relation to the human, but faith is man's relation to the Divine” (SD, p. 226). From Wordnik.com. [EXISTENTIALISM] Reference
355: 24 prehension both of the divine Principle and practice of. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference
(1999) Effects of unilateral brain damage on grip selection, coordination, and kinematics of ipsilesional prehension. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
460: 18 prehension of the truth of being. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference
It was adapted from Latin "prehension -, prehensio" ( "act of seizing") -- again, from "prehendere.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
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