| 单词 |
percipient |
| 释义 |
percipient, a. and n.|pəˈsɪpɪənt|
[ad. L. percipient-em, pr. pple. of percipĕre to perceive.]
A. adj. That perceives or is capable of perceiving; conscious; observing; seeing; discerning.
1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 52 A percipient and rational Creature. 1764Reid Inquiry vi. §4. 137 It..can only be the act of a percipient or thinking being. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 497 Employed in the character of attesting (i.e. percipient and signing) witnesses. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. iii. §86. 73 The eternal basis of conviction,..the consciousness of a self within, a percipient indivisible Ego. 1862Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. IV. ix. §128. 648 The man becomes through a divine life percipient of God.
B. n.
a. One who or that which perceives.
1662H. More Philos. Writ. Pref. Gen. (1712) 13 That vital Sympathy and Coactivity, that transforms objects in their exactest circumstances to the common Percipient. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. v, The Soul is the sole Percipient, which alone hath animadversion and sense properly so called. 1744Harris Three Treat. ii. i. (1765) 56 Nature passes to the Percipient through all the Senses. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 301 In the very act of imagining it, you include an ideal percipient.
b. spec. in Telepathy, etc. One who perceives something outside the range of the senses, or ‘on whose mind a telepathic impact falls’.
1885Proc. Soc. Psychical Research III. 92 An apparition of a dead person whose death was unknown to the percipient. 1886Gurney Phantasms of Living I. 6 We call the owner of the impressing mind the agent, and the owner of the impressed mind the percipient. 1898Month Jan. 52 note, Intimate personal relations between the writer and the percipient of the vision. 1955Sci. Amer. Oct. 116/3 As a result of extensive tests, mainly involving two extraordinarily gifted ‘percipients’ in the business of card guessing, Soal and his co⁓worker Bateman were converted from doubt to ardent belief. 1966K. R. Rao Exper. Parapsychol. i. 6 The hypothesis that the percipient, not the agent, is the likely initiator of the psi experience. 1974Listener 3 Jan. 22/2 Some of the target images were lantern-slides... The guessers or ‘percipients’ were asked to try to draw the image.
Add: Hence perˈcipiently adv., in an astute or discerning manner; perceptively.
1924Public Opinion 31 Oct. 429/3 How wisely, how percipiently! Scarcely a sentence was marked which he had not known. 1986Financial Times 23 Aug. p. i/6 But as a local economist noted percipiently, this improbable island..is more like a confidence trick, in which people are willingly persuaded of its stability and its prospects. |
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