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

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from apperception.]

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From Old French aperceveir, apercevoir, from late Latin *appercipēre, from ad- + percipere.

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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