Both Uses of
apprehend
in
Twelfth Night
- Orsino, this is that Antonio That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy: And this is he that did the Tiger board When your young nephew Titus lost his leg: Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, In private brabble did we apprehend him.†
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- …life I gave him, and did thereto add My love, without retention or restraint, All his in dedication: for his sake, Did I expose myself, pure for his love, Into the danger of this adverse town; Drew to defend him when he was beset: Where being apprehended, his false cunning,— Not meaning to partake with me in danger,— Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance, And grew a twenty-years-removed thing While one would wink; denied me mine own purse, Which I had recommended to his use Not…†
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Definitions:
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(apprehend as in: apprehend the criminal) to capture and arrest someone suspected of breaking the law
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(apprehend as in: apprehend the situation) to understand or perceive (see or become aware of)