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Percipient   /pərsˈɪpiənt/  /pərsˈɪpjənt/   Listen
Percipient

adjective
1.
Characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving.  Synonym: clear.  "A percipient author"





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"Percipient" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary ends of life. The really valuable point in his doctrine is the relativity of beauty. Unlike Plato, he recognized no self-beauty (auto to kalon) existing absolutely and out of all relation to a percipient ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... working positive harm, it must be restricted within due limits of age, capacity, and subject; that it is not, therefore, the real and total present desideratum of our schools; and that, subsequently to the completion of the more purely sensuous and percipient phase of the mind, and to the acquirement of the store of simpler ideas and information, and the degree of capacity, that ought to be secured during that period—hence, from an age not later than eleven, or according as circumstances may determine, thirteen ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. VI, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National Policy • Various


Words linked to "Percipient" :   eyeglass wearer, motile, informant, somebody, listener, discoverer, perceiver, noticer, visualizer, individual, auditor, beholder, watcher, witnesser, looker, spectator, hearer, someone, mortal, attender, discerning, finder, person, witness, visualiser, perceive, spotter, seer, observer, viewer, soul, audile


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