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 beauty of landscape, the forms of religion and science, the types of human nature itself, are due to this apperceptive gift.

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

The first story in a group is an apperceptive one; it secures the child's spontaneous attention because, through its plot, it touches his own life in some way.

From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

Everything will then depend on his genius, on his principles, on his passions, � in a word, on his apperceptive forms.

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

The second story in each group makes an appeal to the child's reasoning powers; having secured his attention through the apperceptive story, the story-teller now takes the child a-field, mentally, and secures his voluntary attention.

From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin