apperceive

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From my perception, then, of hoof or sound I apperceive cow.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

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 Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

Good instruction, then, involves first putting the child into a proper frame of mind to apperceive the new knowledge, and hence this becomes a corner-stone of all good teaching method.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

He can not apperceive it so as to permit him to gratify my claim; but there is enough appeal in the claim to induce him to write a whole article in justification of his refusal.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

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