apprehension

The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.

When he told us that a large reward was offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock for the murderer's apprehension, I did not in my first consternation understand why; […]

Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment

We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.

Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.