apperceive

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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

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

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

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

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