PERCE'IVE, L. percipio per and capio, to take.
1. To have knowledge or receive impressions of external objects through the medium or instrumentality of the senses or bodily organs as, to perceive light or color to perceive the cold or ice or the taste of honey.
2. To know to understand to observe.
Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understanding, we are in the dark.
3. To be affected by to receive impressions from.
The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air below.
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