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 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
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 apperceptive power of the pupil's mind takes the new material of thought and feeling contained in the selection and weaves it into the web of his previous ideas and emotions.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Perfect freedom can not be developed in a soul filled with the apperceptive experiences of tyranny.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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