verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To perceive. obsolete
2. 2
   perceive in terms of a past experience wordnet
3. 3
   To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.

Etymology

From Middle English aperceiven, from Old French aperceveir, apercevoir, from Late Latin *appercipiō, from ad- + percipiō.

Related phrases

apperceiving mass

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