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
Active attitude and the concept, 128 Analysis, 111-115, 152 f.; in education, 112 Apperception, 199; apperceptive masses, 203 Application, 129 f.,
From How We Think by Dewey, John
The apperceptive expectancy, practically nil in the reading of nonsense material, must be decidedly deficient in all poor reading.
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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
But Ivan was Ivan still: high-strung, keenly apperceptive and receptive; his spiritual, like his physical, nerves, alive to every emotion, every pain or pleasure that rose up into his present.
From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton
He had no apperceptive centres in his experience or his training to which your kind of religious teaching was related.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
