Perceive

Definition of Perceive

Per`ceive´
v. t.1.To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.
[imp. & p. p. Perceived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Perceiving.]
2.To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.
Jesus perceived their wickedness.
- Matt. xxii. 18.
You may, fair lady,
Perceive I speak sincerely.
- Shak.
Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark.
- Locke.
3.To be affected of influented by.
The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below.
- Bacon.

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