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Webster 1913 Edition
Apperceive
Apˊper-ceive′
,Verb.
T.
To perceive; to comprehend.
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
apperceive
apperceive
English
Verb
apperceive (third-person singular simple present apperceives, present participle apperceiving, simple past and past participle apperceived)
- (obsolete) To perceive.
- (psychology) To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.
Derived terms
- apperceiving mass