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
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
Dickens emphasized the fact that the lack of apperceptive centres of an improper kind is a great advantage.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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 Margaret Horton Potter
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
