percipient

[ US /pɝˈsɪpiənt, pɝˈsɪpjənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
    clear mind
    a percipient author
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How To Use percipient In A Sentence

  • The percipient who settles for contemplation is unable to experience art in quite this active way, but neither is the one driven by the sheer desire for beauty, who is willing to sacrifice the particularity of the work for the abstractly sensual, nor the "investigator," who, in his/her preference for "data" or illustration can only be impatient with the "uniqueness of the object perceived. March 2010
  • Cs liberati Anne de Veer Abbatisse de Berkyng, per manus domini Roberti de Wakfeld clerici, super expensis domine Elizabethe uxoris Roberti de Brus, percipientis per ebdomadum xxs., et ibidem perhendinantis. Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850
  • Thus one percipient observer, Richard Hofstadter, in 1955.
  • Both judges and percipients may detect creases, marks, smudges, temperature differences or other artifacts that result if actual targets have been handled and then mixed in with targets from a pool for judging.
  • Nevertheless, is it the case that the ‘auctioneers’ are without doubt the more percipient of the regulators?
  • Always inclined to hypochondria, the valedictory volume of his diaries catalogues his decline with percipient accuracy.
  • Sometimes he would bring friends for weekends and John longed for Hilda's shrewd eye, percipient comment. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • The experimenter identified problems in visualization protocols, so percipients were instructed to formalize their visualization techniques amongst themselves.
  • In both modes, three percipients would be used, and the individual mentations about each site would be combined into a single mentation pertinent to that site, which was to be ranked by an independent judge.
  • It is interwoven experientially with an array of other elements which affect its character and the meaning it has for the percipient.
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