英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈhɛnd/

動詞

prehend (三人称単数 現在形 prehends, 現在分詞 prehending, 過去形および過去分詞形 prehended)

1. (philosophy) To perceive in the manner of Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 214:

     Each of the four levels "prehends" the other, and so in the punning of words so frequent in hieroglyphic writing, we encounter a richer and more inclusive mode of thought than we are accustomed to.