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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
  • legal The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
  • Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
  • rare The seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
  • The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
  • The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding.

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