apperceive
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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
They stated the view with a rash emphasis, until one is forced to ask whether a mind which is originally nothing at all, can absorb, or as psychologists say, "apperceive" anything whatever.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
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
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
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
The way in which the human figure, for instance, is depicted, is an indication of the way in which it is apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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
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
It is, moreover, a condition of the kind of expression possible, and often determines the manner in which the object suggested shall be apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It is generally agreed that there are certain "tricks" which make for mental efficiency, consisting of methods of apperceiving facts, methods of review, devices for arranging work.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry D. Kitson
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
This influence is shown even in the commonplace instances, where the professional or the amateur is betrayed by the manner of apperceiving one and the same object.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
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
That was his mode of apperceiving the spectacle.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
