apperceive

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Certain signs of passion are all that we ever apperceive externally.

From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry

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 James, William

By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

In this manner we accept the forms imposed upon us by utility, and train ourselves to apperceive their potential beauty.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

He can not apperceive it so as to permit him to gratify my claim; but there is enough appeal in the claim to induce him to write a whole article in justification of his refusal.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William