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

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)

Active attitude and the concept, 128 Analysis, 111-115, 152 f.; in education, 112 Apperception, 199; apperceptive masses, 203 Application, 129 f.,

From How We Think by Dewey, John

The wide plain, the river hurrying between green banks—no apperceptive background fails thus far in the picture.

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell