apperceive

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Their works have become types through which we apperceive and appreciate the world: we see French landscapes as Lorrain and Corot saw them, peasants after the fashion of Millet, the stage after Degas.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

They stated the view with a rash emphasis, until one is forced to ask whether a mind which is originally nothing at all, can absorb, or as psychologists say, "apperceive" anything whatever.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

Thus, so long as the child is able to apperceive only the three sides and three angles of a triangle, his idea of triangle includes a synthesis of these.

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

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