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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Again, we may apperceive an object or quality from our recognition of something which in our experience has been associated, under those particular circumstances, with only that object or quality.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
If there is only one natural law, and we see it only in seemingly unrelated facets because of our ignorance, because we cannot apperceive the whole, then this, too, is no more than another facet.
From Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton
Hence a man is in the midst, nor does he apperceive the evil or the good; and being in the midst, is free to turn himself to the one or to the other.
From The Gist of Swedenborg by Julian K. Smyth
Good instruction, then, involves first putting the child into a proper frame of mind to apperceive the new knowledge, and hence this becomes a corner-stone of all good teaching method.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Thus, so long as the child is able to apperceive only the three sides and three angles of a triangle, his idea of triangle includes a synthesis of these.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The sound of the single wave is felt, but not distinguished, is perceived, but not apperceived.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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
They also apperceived from my speech that I had come from a great distance.
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
When Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
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
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
He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
In an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The choices which determine the universe of maturity are often made in youth; then the foundations are laid of that apperceiving mass which is to condition all the man's contacts with reality.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
In the presence of these they now make manifest their apperceiving power.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
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