Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To perceive (something) while being conscious of perceiving.
- v. To perceive (something) in terms of past experience.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To be conscious of perceiving; comprehend (what is perceived); loosely, to perceive; notice: used specifically of internal perception or self-consciousness. See apperception.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To perceive.
- v. psychology To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To perceive; to comprehend.
WordNet 3.0
- v. perceive in terms of a past experience
Etymologies
- From Old French aperceveir, apercevoir, from late Latin *appercipēre, from ad- + percipere. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from apperception. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'. Sep 8, 2009