apperceive

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Their works have become types through which we apperceive and appreciate the world: we see French landscapes as Lorrain and Corot saw them, peasants after the fashion of Millet, the stage after Degas.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

To apperceive, for instance, the rules of government and agreement in grammar will have a very limited value if the student is not able to give expression to these in his own conversation.

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

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

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

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