ETYMOLOGY
from Latin prehendere (to grasp, seize, catch), variant of præhendere,
from præ, (pre-) + a second element; sometimes perhaps aphetic from apprehend
EXAMPLE
“…but he lay not longe ther, but was delyveryd with-owt punyshment & styll Inioyed his beneffysis; they were greatly blamed that prehended hym and comitted hym…”
From: Political, Religious, and Love Poems
By John Stowe, a1605
Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, 1866
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