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proˈjicient, n. and a.|prəʊˈdʒɪʃ(ɪ)ənt|
[ad. L. prōjiciens, -ent-em, pres. pple. of prōjic-ĕre to project.]
†A. n. One who or that which throws a thing forward or forth. Obs.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 10 Though the projicient do so throw it, that it strikes at right angles with the wall.
B. adj. Concerned with an individual's perception of his surroundings.
1904Nature 8 Sept. 465/1 [Reporting C. S. Sherrington.] In presence of the arcs of the great projicient receptors and the brain there can be few receptive points in the body the activities of which are totally indifferent to one another. 1927J. H. Parsons Introd. Theory Perception vii. 143 The projicient senses—vision.., hearing.., and smell—in the head segments provide those sensations which occupy the focus of the perceptual pattern, the field of attention. 1954A.M.A. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry LXXII. 472 On the other hand, the admonitions from the group representative are apprehended largely by visual and auditory means; the authority figure is very much more clearly defined by ‘projicient’ modalities, and, we guess, is always clearer to the individual.
So projicience |prəʊˈdʒɪʃ(ɪ)əns|, projicient activity or ability.
1906C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nervous Syst. ix. 324 It is in the leading segments that we find the ‘distance-receptors’. For so may be called the receptors which, acting as sense-organs, initiate sensations having the psychical quality termed projicience. 1927J. M. Parsons Introd. Theory Perception ii. 7 At a somewhat higher level there is evidence of response to radiation of shorter wave-length—light, and perhaps ultra-violet radiation. As soon as this occurs the germ of projicience is found. 1931Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXII. 143 Many, if not most, of the stimuli, to which man and the higher mammals respond through projicience, cannot be adequately described without using qualitative terms. 1949A. Gesell et al. Vision xii. 196 This ability is a topographic discrimination, an elementary form of projicience. |