prehensible, a. rare.
(prɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l)
[f. L. prehens-, ppl. stem of prehend-ĕre (see prehend) + -ible. So F. préhensible.]
Capable of being grasped.
| a 1832 Bentham Ess. Lang. Wks. 1843 VIII. 315 This verbal noun..which in this its separate state, becomes the name of a sort of fictitious entity, of a sort of fictitious body or substance, is, in this state, rendered more prehensible. 1947 Mind LVI. 101 This line has parts of two different kinds, visually prehensible and not visually prehensible. |