apperceive

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One may perceive a new object without understanding it, but to apperceive it is to interpret its meaning by the aid of similar familiar notions.

From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander

Certain it is that the adolescent power to apperceive and appreciate never so far outstrips his power to produce or reproduce as about midway in the teens.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

Again, we may apperceive an object or quality from our recognition of something which in our experience has been associated, under those particular circumstances, with only that object or quality.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

People apperceive, think, and feel as these three teach them, and finally it becomes second nature to follow this line of least resistance, and to seek intellectual conformity.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf