ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not apprehended by the mind.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. ii. § 1. They of whom God is altogether vnapprehended, are but few in number.
1668. Clarendon, Vind., Tracts (1727), 48. Bringing heinous crimes to light … by means unapprehended by the guilty.
1896. A. Morrison, Child of the Jago, xxi. 205. He had a shapeless, unapprehended notion that Canary was the sole creature alive that could understand and feel with him.
2. Not arrested.
1611. Cotgr., Descalengé, vnarrested, vnapprehended.
1764. Burn, Poor Laws, 207. The clause … whereby a rogue and vagabond … was to be sent to the place where he last passed unapprehended.
