apperceive

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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

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

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

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

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