This ability to prehend is precisely its portion of creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
Caramon gasped, unable - for a moment - to com - prehend what had happened. From Wordnik.com. [Time of the Twins]
Ford argues, by elimination, that a future creativity must be the source of an occasion's ability to prehend. From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
According to Ford, an additional mode of influence must be posited, for one must account for an actual entity's ability to prehend. From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
Only the small J knowledge of this day, a little aided by what the mirrorm could share with him, though he was unable even to corn-1 prehend the learning long since lost. From Wordnik.com. [Merlin's Mirror]
This unifying and coordinating principle, she thought, has enabled geography to com - prehend vast accumulations of facts, and for the first time raised it to the level of a science. From Wordnik.com. [ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE] Reference
Cicero divided arts into those which only com - prehend things (animo cernunt) and those which make them (Academica II 7, 22); today we consider the first category as sciences, not as arts. From Wordnik.com. [CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS] Reference
Although Jubal Clay was a prudent businessman who could com - prehend the financial advantages a war with Mexico might yield, he was, like his ancestors, primarily a military man, and now he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
O how little then do they ap - prehend the height & depthl&c. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism : being the arguments prepared for (and partly managed in) the publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Bewdley on the first day of Jan. 1649 ..] Reference
At the moment I did not com-prehend; but now it is plain to me. From Wordnik.com. [Remember the Alamo] Reference
In our prefent fituation, I ap - prehend we Ihould not be better off. From Wordnik.com. ['Tis Well It's No Worse: A Comedy] Reference
Now could I, by the virtue of my office, ap - prehend the knaves for misdemeanour. From Wordnik.com. [Two plays: Mantuan revels, a comedy, in five acts; Henry the Seventh, an historical tragedy, in five acts] Reference
Was I an Englilhman or a Scotchman, my feehngs here, I ap - prehend, would be the lame. From Wordnik.com. [An historical account of the British or Welsh versions and editions of the Bible : With an appendix containing the dedications prefixed to the first impressions] Reference
So very great is the Bulk of this World of Bodies., that no Thought or Underftanding can com - prehend it!. From Wordnik.com. [Steps of ascension to God : written originally in Latin by the famous Cardinal Bellarmine] Reference
I was unable to com - prehend my folly, and losing in the conjecture the thing conjectured of, I fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Can Such Things Be]
I shall therefore order them to march as soon as possible, which I ap - prehend will be some time the next week. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Hut the mifchicls they ap - prehend from any fuperior invilible agi nts, are con - fined to things merely temporal. From Wordnik.com. [A New, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority [microform] : containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages, undertaken by order of his present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the southern and northern hemispheres & c. &c. &c. ... the whole comprehending a full account, from the earliest period to the present time ...] Reference
I charge ye, as you will answer, 'prehend them; for they have undone me, and robb'd me, and made me the poorest freeman that ever kept a ballad-stall. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
I have already remarked, that calculations, numerous enough to com - prehend all cafes, would require an hun - dred thoufand folios, at leaft, to contain them. From Wordnik.com. [The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a farm; and to a gentleman on taking the whole or part of his estate into his own hands. Also, plans of farm-yards, and sections of the necessary buildings] Reference
The fcoria, I ap - prehend, would be very little, even from a ton of ore, if the ore was quite free from fpar: it is the fpar which is mixed with the ore that con. From Wordnik.com. [Chemical Essays.] Reference
A COMPETENT degree of this knowledge is re - quisite to the hearer also, to enable him to ap - prehend the full import, and the precise force of the words of the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Gaelic grammar : in four parts] Reference
It becomes me to bow to that gentleman's more exten - five praftical knowledge; but I confefs myfelf unable to ap - prehend what fpecics of cafes it can be to which he alludes. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Treatise of a Suit in Equity: In which is Attempted a Scientific Deduction of the ...] Reference
Who can fee this without the eyes of faith? who can alfo com - prehend, how in one felfe - fame inftant, hc is found on di - ners Akars, in diuers Countries, andbotb in earth, and in. From Wordnik.com. [Holy pictures of the mysticall figures of the most holy sacrifice and sacrament of the eucharist ...] Reference
There existed between himself and his wife a sort of vague, semitelepathic, rapport; they had never been able to transmit definite and exact thoughts, but they could clearly prehend one another's feelings and emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Time Crime] Reference
"Well, it happens that I have the ability to prehend future events. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of the Knife] Reference
But what is that which is one going to prehend?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
179: 9 prehend thought and to heal by the Truth-power, is won only as man is found, not in self-righteousness, but re - flecting the divine nature. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference
35 prehend. From Wordnik.com. [The Holie Bible : faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in divers languages ...] Reference
"prehend in my profcription all thofe black. From Wordnik.com. [Historical epochs of the French Revolution,] Reference
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