Grasp vs Seise - What's the difference?
grasp | seise |
To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
(senseid)To understand.
Grip.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(senseid)Understanding.
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
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(legal) To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone).
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(transitive, with of, legal) To put in possession.
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* 2011 , Article 3 section 7, Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011, Official Journal of the European Union L 55/15
(dated) To seize.
As verbs the difference between grasp and seise
is that grasp is to grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand while seise is to vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone).As a noun grasp
is grip.grasp
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(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .
Derived terms
* grasp the nettleNoun
(en noun)seise
English
Verb
(seis)- Where the appeal committee is seised , it shall meet at the earliest 14 days, except in duly justified cases, and at the latest 6 weeks, after the date of referral.