apperceive

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A. Present Knowledge.—Since the mind can apperceive only that for which it is prepared through former experience, the interpretation of the same presentations will be likely to differ greatly in different individuals.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

They said they worshipped some angel, who appears to them as a Divine man, for he is resplendent with light; and that he instructs them and enables them to apperceive what they ought to do.

From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Swedenborg, Emanuel

On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

Education is especially valuable, in fact, in that it so adds to the experience of the child that he may more fully apperceive his surroundings.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Their works have become types through which we apperceive and appreciate the world: we see French landscapes as Lorrain and Corot saw them, peasants after the fashion of Millet, the stage after Degas.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.