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Webster 1913 Edition


Impercipient

Imˊper-cip′i-ent

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Adj.
Not perceiving, or not able to perceive.
A. Baxter.

Webster 1828 Edition


Impercipient

IMPERCIP'IENT

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Adj.
Not perceiving or having power to perceive.

Definition 2024


impercipient

impercipient

English

Adjective

impercipient (comparative more impercipient, superlative most impercipient)

  1. Lacking perception; unable to perceive.
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 215:
      Nevertheless, his attitude to such plebeian upstarts was lofty and impercipient: not having been introduced to them, he had not the pleasure of their acquaintance, so to speak.