percepting

Verb

percept (third-person singular simple present percepts, present participle percepting, simple past and past participle percepted)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) Synonym of perceive.
   • And is not the highest speculation of it percepted and perfected by manuall instruments, and those fallacious too, as themselves complain?1652, John Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία. The Mag-Astro-Mancer, or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner posed and puzzled

   Synonyms:

   perceive

2. (transitive) To make perceptible or distinct, to reveal.
   • The lighter and darker shading of surfaces can be understood as a means for discrimination in percepting each viewpoint, and at the same time as spatial articulation — back, forward, oblique — of the pictorial space of the picture-plane.1947, László Moholy-Nagy, translated by Daphne M. Hoffman, “The material (surface treatment, painting)”, in The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist (The Documents of Modern Art), New York, N.Y....

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