apperceive
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When they were come, they instantly ran over the things that were in my memory, but, owing to their promptness, I was unable to apperceive what they observed.
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
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
Then the queen departed into her chamber so that no man should apperceive her great sorrows.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.
From Meaning of Truth 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
C. Adds to Clearness of Knowledge.—Not only does expression test the clearness of the apperceived new knowledge, but at the same time it gives the knowledge greater clearness.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
There was a certain spirit above my head who spoke with me, and from the tone of his voice he was apperceived to be as it were in a state of sleep.
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
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
I apperceived that this was their manner of accosting all who come to them.
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 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
In the interaction between the old and new the latter then become the apperceiving forces.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
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 imagination works in conjunction with the apperceiving faculty and constructs real pictures.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
That they did not have sufficient "apperceiving basis" I cannot believe, for they were generally bright and clever.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
This next and highest sphere is action from the general or abstract thoughts which we have been able to work up by the apperceiving activity of the mind.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
