Lexicographical Neighbors of Prehensility
Literary usage of Prehensility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1902)
"The role of practice and training in prehensility is emphasised by Dr Quantz
after Virchow(s16, p. 454). In a sense, however, all civilised men, at least, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom, and have invented
many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception, and prehensility of ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... a fact which is indicative of a less perfect prehensility than is exhibited
in some Monkeys with a naked under surface to the tip of the tail. ..."
4. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"But all we can really assume is prehensility and the general idea. The first
weapon used was the object at hand when the idea occurred to man. ..."
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