apperceive
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Evidently the ideal has been formed by the habit of perception; it is, in a rough way, that average form which we expect and most readily apperceive.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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 Emanuel Swedenborg
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 Dewitt H. Parker
Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
It was given me also to apperceive the character of their internal respiration.
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 Emanuel Swedenborg
Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth, and I was admitted to converse with them.
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 Emanuel Swedenborg
A single, concrete, objective Fact, transcending yet informing his universe, compels his adoration, and is apperceived by him in three main ways.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
When Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
In what opposite ways must the child's parents have apperceived the burning house and the engine respectively!
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
It may include facts which have fallen within the sensory field, but which have never been supraliminally "apperceived" or cognised in any way.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
His experience and its interpretation are, then, inevitably conditioned by this apperceiving mass.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
This influence is shown even in the commonplace instances, where the professional or the amateur is betrayed by the manner of apperceiving one and the same object.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
The process of apperceiving or of assimilation may involve it.
From How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer
He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Time will be saved by having the apperceiving ideas ready and active.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
