Prophesy vs Apprehend - What's the difference?
prophesy | apprehend | Synonyms |
To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
To predict, to foretell.
* Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
* Shakespeare
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 745:
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
* Shakespeare
(Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
(archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
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To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
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To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
To be apprehensive; to fear.
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(material dates from 1913)
Prophesy is a synonym of apprehend.
As verbs the difference between prophesy and apprehend
is that prophesy is to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet while apprehend is (archaic) to take or seize; to take hold of.prophesy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
- Then I perceive that will be verified / Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy .
- ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy / A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.
apprehend
English
Verb
(en verb)- We have two hands to apprehend it.
- to apprehend a criminal .
- This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
- The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
- The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.
- It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Usage notes
To apprehend, comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehend many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. We may apprehend much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters. --Trench.(material dates from 1913)