deprehensible
English
Adjective
deprehensible (comparative more deprehensible, superlative most deprehensible)
- (obsolete) Capable of being caught or discovered.
- so deprehensible an error
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Petty to this entry?)
- 1655, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism
- Cardan somewhere intimates that their approaches are deprehensible by certain sweet smells they cast.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deprehensible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)