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Deprehend
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend. The deprehended adulteress.Jer. Taylor.
2. To detect; to discover; to find out. The motion . . . are to be deprehended by experience. Bacon.