apperceive
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By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
When they were come, they instantly ran over the things that were in my memory, but, owing to their promptness, I was unable to apperceive what they observed.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
To apperceive, for instance, the rules of government and agreement in grammar will have a very limited value if the student is not able to give expression to these in his own conversation.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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 G. Stanley Hall
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 Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
It is when you have fully apperceived the object that your conception is complete.
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts
It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
C. Adds to Clearness of Knowledge.—Not only does expression test the clearness of the apperceived new knowledge, but at the same time it gives the knowledge greater clearness.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The object is unideal, that is, the novel, external element is inharmonious with the revived and internal element by suggesting which the object has been apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
The choice between them would be an arbitrary one, determined by personal bias, for the object being indeterminate, its elements can be apperceived as forming all kinds of unities.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
In the presence of these they now make manifest their apperceiving power.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
Further, the apperceiving ideas become more interesting to the pupil, when he finds that he can use them in the conquest of new fields.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
In the interaction between the old and new the latter then become the apperceiving forces.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
This next and highest sphere is action from the general or abstract thoughts which we have been able to work up by the apperceiving activity of the mind.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
The choices which determine the universe of maturity are often made in youth; then the foundations are laid of that apperceiving mass which is to condition all the man's contacts with reality.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
