All 3 Uses of
apprehend
in
The Mill on the Floss
- A boy born with a deficient power of apprehending signs and abstractions must suffer the penalty of his congenital deficiency, just as if he had been born with one leg shorter than the other.
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1) *apprehending = understanding
- It flashed through her like the suddenly apprehended solution of a problem, that all the miseries of her young life had come from fixing her heart on her own pleasure, as if that were the central necessity of the universe; and for the first time she saw the possibility of shifting the position from which she looked at the gratification of her own desires,—of taking her stand out of herself, and looking at her own life as an insignificant part of a divinely guided whole.†
Chpt 4.3 (definition 2) *
- The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it; the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.†
Chpt 7.2 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (apprehend as in: apprehend the situation) to understand or perceive (see or become aware of)
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(2) (apprehend as in: apprehend the criminal) to capture and arrest someone suspected of breaking the law