apperceptive
Example Sentences
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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 absolute necessity for fixing apperceptive centres of emotion and thought in the lives of children by experience is shown in the case of Neville Landless in Edwin Drood.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
Bleak House discusses the contents of children’s minds and the need of early experiences to form apperceptive centres of feeling and thought in a comprehensive and suggestive manner.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
The story, The Holiday, opens the program with its apperceptive appeal, showing the dependence of the home upon the industrial life of the community and the possibility of a child's coöperation in it.
From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
Perfect freedom can not be developed in a soul filled with the apperceptive experiences of tyranny.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
