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apperceive

[ap-er-seev] / ˌæp ərˈsiv /






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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

The self-same person, according to the line of thought he may be in, or to his emotional mood, will apperceive the same impression quite differently on different occasions.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James

In this manner we accept the forms imposed upon us by utility, and train ourselves to apperceive their potential beauty.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

It was given me also to apperceive the character of their internal respiration.

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

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

When Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

Their speech, being of many together, was apperceived as undulatory, and, what was remarkable, it glided towards my left eye, although they were to the right.

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

He again came to me in mean raiment, and again said that he had an ardent desire to enter heaven, and that he now apperceived that he was such that he could go there.

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

They also apperceived from my speech that I had come from a great distance.

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

That they did not have sufficient "apperceiving basis" I cannot believe, for they were generally bright and clever.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

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

With Herbart, the ideas gained through experience are the apperceiving power in interpreting new things.

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

The only novelty that I can imagine this course of lectures to possess lies in the breadth of the apperceiving mass.

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

Time will be saved by having the apperceiving ideas ready and active.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education




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