apperceptive

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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.

From Forbes • Mar. 30, 2015

Dickens makes a strong contrast between the condition of the mental and spiritual apperceptive centres in the city boy as compared with the country boy, in a conversation between Phil Squod and Mr. George.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

Nature, its organization the source of apperceptive forms, 152 et seq.      the love of it among the ancients, 137, 138.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

By means of this interweaving, the stimulation of the apperceptive element transmits itself to the remaining elements of the association complex.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

Perfect freedom can not be developed in a soul filled with the apperceptive experiences of tyranny.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)