apperceive

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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 Hall, G. Stanley

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

I cannot but think that to apperceive your pupil as a little sensitive, impulsive, associative, and reactive organism, partly fated and partly free, will lead to a better intelligence of all his ways.

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

Evidently the ideal has been formed by the habit of perception; it is, in a rough way, that average form which we expect and most readily apperceive.

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

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 James, William