Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To perceive (something) while being conscious of perceiving.
- transitive verb To perceive (something) in terms of past experience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be conscious of perceiving; comprehend (what is perceived); loosely, to perceive; notice: used specifically of internal perception or self-consciousness. See
apperception .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To perceive; to comprehend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
perceive . - verb psychology To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perceive in terms of a past experience
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since to apperceive is to bring the results of earlier experience to bear actively upon the new impression, it must involve a reactive, or attentive, state of consciousness; for, as noted in our study of the learning process, it is only by selecting elements out of former experience that the new impression is given definite meaning in consciousness.
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"And then they put on their helms an departed, and reommended them all wholly unto the queen: and there was weeping and great sorrow. Then the queen departed into her chamber so that no man should apperceive her great sorrows."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 8, 2009