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▪ I. perceiver, n.|pəˈsiːvə(r)|
[f. perceive + -er1.]
1. One who perceives, a percipient; an observer, understander.
a1550R. Wyer tr. C. de Pisan's C. Hyst. Troye A j b, And where mysordre, in thy translacion is Unto the perceyuer. 1645Milton Tetrach. Introd., Under the appearance of a grave solidity, which estimation they have gain'd among weak perceivers. 1867Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims vii. (1875) 177 Newton the philosopher, the perceiver, and obeyer of truth. 1893Patmore Relig. Poetæ 2 The Poet is, par excellence, the perceiver, nothing having any interest for him unless he can, as it were, see and touch it with the spiritual senses. 1947G. Murphy Personality xiv. 331 (heading) The perceiver. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 158 The history of the gestalt psychology is filled with many other instances in which missing parts are ignored by the perceiver. 1972Sci. Amer. Nov. 85/1 The students who were three-dimensional perceivers spent more time looking at the ambiguous trident. 1973Nature 14 Dec. 434/2 He stresses that painters and sculptors, like poets, expect the perceiver to do at least half the work.
†2. One who obtains or receives; a recipient, participator. Obs.
c1400Apol. Loll. 10 Þus þe apostil did alle þings for þe gospel þat he schuld be maad perseyuer þer of. Ibid. 28 Bi þat we schal..be so perceyuers of cristis meritis. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. viii, Of þe prysoner of helle makyth [it] a perceyuer of heuenly herytage. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics xxxii. 540 A quick and lively perceiver, a tender sence, and sprightly intelligence.
▪ II. † perceiver, v. Obs. rare.
Also 5 perseuer, 6 perceuere, perceyver.
[app. a. ONF. perceivre, percevire (13th c. in Godef.: see perceive) taken as the verb-stem: cf. render, tender.]
trans. To perceive, make out.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. iii. xix. (W. de W.) 65 The witte of smellynge perseueryth [MSS. perseyueþ, perc-] and knowith smelles. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. x. xiii, Hard it wyll be loue so to couere [i.e. kever] But that som man shall it perceuere. 1509― Past. Pleas. xix. xxii, Thoughe..wyth a stormy pery The fyre was blowen, yet we dyd it cover, Bycause abrode it should nothyng perceyver. |