apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
The wide plain, the river hurrying between green banks—no apperceptive background fails thus far in the picture.
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts
It is the synthetic, or apperceptive, activity of the mind that gives the “seven-league boots” to genius.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
The laws of association draw the feelings as much as the intellectual states into apperceptive acts.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
The highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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