apperceive

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Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

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

Thus, so long as the child is able to apperceive only the three sides and three angles of a triangle, his idea of triangle includes a synthesis of these.

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

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

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

In this manner we accept the forms imposed upon us by utility, and train ourselves to apperceive their potential beauty.

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