apperceive
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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
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
Certain signs of passion are all that we ever apperceive externally.
From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry
Then the queen departed into her chamber so that no man should apperceive her great sorrows.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
In what opposite ways must the child's parents have apperceived the burning house and the engine respectively!
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
The sound of the single wave is felt, but not distinguished, is perceived, but not apperceived.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth, and I was admitted to converse with them.
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
Thus, for example, newly formed representations are apperceived by the existing older ones, but the highest apperceiver is not, in turn, itself apperceived.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
His experience and its interpretation are, then, inevitably conditioned by this apperceiving mass.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
That was his mode of apperceiving the spectacle.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
The process of apperceiving or of assimilation may involve it.
From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton
He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
As time goes on, our vocabulary becomes thus ever more and more voluminous, having to keep up with the ever-growing multitude of our stock of apperceiving ideas.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
