Fasting, yet not of want Percipient, he on that mysterious steed Had reach’d his resting-place, For expectation kept his nature up.
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Percipient
//pəˈsɪp.i.ənt//
Synonyms for "percipient" (69 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Related words (34)
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6 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- лесно възприемащ adj (having the ability to perceive)
French
1 entries- percipient noun (One who has perceived a paranormal event)
Irish
4 entries- airitheach adj (having the ability to perceive)
- braiteach adj (having the ability to perceive)
- tuisceanach adj (having the ability to perceive)
- airitheoir noun (one who perceives something)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[...] he calls attention to the use of glasses […] The eye itself is no more percipient than the glass; is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is.
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As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.
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In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.
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