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 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 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Nature, its organization the source of apperceptive forms, 152 et seq. the love of it among the ancients, 137, 138.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It is reasonable to suppose that in the subnormal mind the habitual common associations are less firmly fixed, thus diminishing the effectiveness of the ever-changing apperceptive expectancy.
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 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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