apperceive

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By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it.

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

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

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

A. Present Knowledge.—Since the mind can apperceive only that for which it is prepared through former experience, the interpretation of the same presentations will be likely to differ greatly in different individuals.

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

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