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 story, The Holiday, opens the program with its apperceptive appeal, showing the dependence of the home upon the industrial life of the community and the possibility of a child's coöperation in it.

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

It is the synthetic, or apperceptive, activity of the mind that gives the “seven-league boots” to genius.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

Thus the critical analysis must give a logical presentation of the apperceptive and associative processes of revival.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

Hugh, the splendid young animal who was John Willet’s stable boy in Barnaby Rudge, was as deficient of most intellectual and spiritual apperceptive centres as poor Jo.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)