"Prehend" comes from the Latin prehendere (to seize or grasp), which is the ancestor of more common English words:
: It refers to the act of an "actual occasion" (a moment of experience) reaching out and incorporating aspects of the past or other entities into itself. Physical vs. Mental : prehend
"Prehend" is a philosophical and linguistic term most often used in (developed by Alfred North Whitehead) to describe how an individual entity perceives or "grasps" other entities to form its own experience. "Prehend" comes from the Latin prehendere (to seize
: Connecting new information to a "learning net" or schema already stored in the mind. prehend