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Definition of Apperceive
1. Verb. Perceive in terms of a past experience.
Generic synonyms: Comprehend, Perceive
Derivative terms: Apperception
Definition of Apperceive
1. v. t. To perceive; to comprehend.
Definition of Apperceive
1. Verb. (obsolete) To perceive. ¹
2. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apperceive
1. [v -CEIVED, -CEIVING, -CEIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apperceive
Literary usage of Apperceive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Educative Process by William Chandler Bagley (1908)
"He cannot apperceive because the complex and highly organized system of associations
... Children and uncultured men apperceive but little, because there is ..."
2. Mesmer and Swedenborg, Or, The Relation of the Developments of Mesmerism to by George Bush (1847)
"These words the angels apperceive altogether otherwise than man; by the sun which
shall be obscured they do not apperceive the sun, but love to the Lord ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"associations ; to apperceive it as present, it must call up the idea ... Thus when
we apperceive D as present the process that nearly always occurs is ..."
4. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1863)
"2542, 3869; that it also denotes to apperceive, is evident from the very function
of the ear, and the consequent nature of hearing. ..."
5. The System of the Vedânta: According to Bâdarâyaṇa's Brahma-sûtras and by Paul Deussen (1912)
"Because we apperceive them. For we apperceive an "external object according to
our perception of it as a column, "a wall, a vessel, a cloth; ..."
6. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1900)
"The self-same person, according to the line of thought he may be in, or to his
emotional mood, will apperceive the same impression quite differently on ..."
7. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1906)
"The self-same person, according to the line of thought he may be in, or to his
emotional mood, will apperceive the same impression quite differently on ..."
8. Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England by Joseph Ames (1810)
"And if he have forget to put in the wine, which ought to be sacred, anon, as he
shall apperceive it, that he put the wine or water in the chalice; ..."
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