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

How life in any stage might be filled with richness and joy, if imaginations were stored with apperceptive elements and allowed to reconstruct the universe in our fancies!

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

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

Bleak House discusses the contents of children’s minds and the need of early experiences to form apperceptive centres of feeling and thought in a comprehensive and suggestive manner.

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