APPREHENDED
\ˌapɹɪhˈɛndɪd], \ˌapɹɪhˈɛndɪd], \ˌa_p_ɹ_ɪ_h_ˈɛ_n_d_ɪ_d]\
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fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"
By Princeton University
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sir richard blackmore
- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.