apperceive
Americanverb (used with object)
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to have conscious perception of; comprehend.
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to comprehend (a new idea) by assimilation with the sum of one's previous knowledge and experience.
verb
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to be aware of perceiving
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psychol to comprehend by assimilating (a perception) to ideas already in the mind
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Etymology
Origin of apperceive
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English word from Old French word aperceivre. See ap- 1, perceive
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It was given me also to apperceive the character of their internal respiration.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
I cannot but think that to apperceive your pupil as a little sensitive, impulsive, associative, and reactive organism, partly fated and partly free, will lead to a better intelligence of all his ways.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
They are almost certain, therefore, to apperceive the new idea; that is, to conquer and subdue it, to make it tributary to their power.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
Education is especially valuable, in fact, in that it so adds to the experience of the child that he may more fully apperceive his surroundings.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
They said they worshipped some angel, who appears to them as a Divine man, for he is resplendent with light; and that he instructs them and enables them to apperceive what they ought to do.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
Their speech, being of many together, was apperceived as undulatory, and, what was remarkable, it glided towards my left eye, although they were to the right.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
The choice between them would be an arbitrary one, determined by personal bias, for the object being indeterminate, its elements can be apperceived as forming all kinds of unities.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It may include facts which have fallen within the sensory field, but which have never been supraliminally "apperceived" or cognised in any way.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
The object is unideal, that is, the novel, external element is inharmonious with the revived and internal element by suggesting which the object has been apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
Further, the apperceiving ideas become more interesting to the pupil, when he finds that he can use them in the conquest of new fields.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The comic depends upon our apperceiving an object in terms of some idea and finding it incongruous.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker
As time goes on, our vocabulary becomes thus ever more and more voluminous, having to keep up with the ever-growing multitude of our stock of apperceiving ideas.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
So strong is the apperceiving force of familiar notions that they drag far-distant scenes in geography and history into the home neighborhood and locate them there.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
The process of apperceiving or of assimilation may involve it.
From How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer
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