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

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

Nature, its organization the source of apperceptive forms, 152 et seq.      the love of it among the ancients, 137, 138.

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

The highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.

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

Dickens makes a strong contrast between the condition of the mental and spiritual apperceptive centres in the city boy as compared with the country boy, in a conversation between Phil Squod and Mr. George.

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