transitive verb. To perceive (something) while being conscious of perceiving.

transitive verb. To perceive (something) in terms of past experience.

To be conscious of perceiving; comprehend (what is perceived); loosely, to perceive; notice: used specifically of internal perception or self-consciousness. See apperception.

transitive verb. To perceive; to comprehend.

verb. To perceive.

verb. To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.

verb. perceive in terms of a past experience

"Since to apperceive is to bring the results of earlier experience to bear actively upon the new impression, it must involve a reactive, or attentive, state of consciousness; for, as noted in our study of the learning process, it is only by selecting elements out of former experience that the new impression is given definite meaning in consciousness."

apperception  

apperceiving mass  

comprehend  perceive  

comprehend  perceive  

apperceived  apperceiving