apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
The laws of association draw the feelings as much as the intellectual states into apperceptive acts.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
But Ivan was Ivan still: high-strung, keenly apperceptive and receptive; his spiritual, like his physical, nerves, alive to every emotion, every pain or pleasure that rose up into his present.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
The mechanical organization of external nature is thus the source of apperceptive forms in the mind.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
The absolute necessity for fixing apperceptive centres of emotion and thought in the lives of children by experience is shown in the case of Neville Landless in Edwin Drood.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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