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Synonyms for perceives

Grammar : Verb
Spell : per-seev
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈsiv

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Définition of perceives

Origin :
  • c.1300, via Anglo-French parceif, Old North French *perceivre (Old French perçoivre) "perceive, notice, see; recognize, understand," from Latin percipere "obtain, gather, seize entirely, take possession of," also, figuratively, "to grasp with the mind, learn, comprehend," literally "to take entirely," from per "thoroughly" (see per) + capere "to grasp, take" (see capable).
  • Replaced Old English ongietan. Both the Latin senses were in Old French, though the primary sense of Modern French percevoir is literal, "to receive, collect" (rents, taxes, etc.), while English uses the word almost always in the metaphorical sense. Related: Perceived; perceiving.
  • verb notice, see
  • verb understand
Example sentences :
  • For it perceives its object's little failings with a calm and judicial eye.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • It is not sense which perceives, but reason which infers them.
  • Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton
  • He perceives that the sacrifice required is the sacrifice of himself.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • They were just beginning to realise that the mind works when it perceives.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • The first answer is, that he perceives sights with the eye, and sounds with the ear.
  • Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
  • She is nevertheless in the body, and continues to animate it, but she perceives not her own action.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • Apart from sins and virtues she perceives two things—caprice and free-will.
  • Extract from : « The Prodigal Returns » by Lilian Staveley
  • Is it that he perceives me nearer the goal than as yet I am aware?
  • Extract from : « Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. » by Charles James Lever
  • He perceives this truth in the serenity of his soul and in the elevation of his mind.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • He can make them get the lesson it is true, but he perceives perhaps that it is a weary task to them.
  • Extract from : « The Teacher » by Jacob Abbott

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