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Webster 1828 Edition


Deprehensible

DEPREHENSIBLE

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Adj.
That may be caught, or discovered.

Definition 2024


deprehensible

deprehensible

English

Adjective

deprehensible (comparative more deprehensible, superlative most deprehensible)

  1. (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.