Word Meanings - PRESENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Previous perception. Sir T. Browne.

PREVIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
PERCEPTION
The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
PREVIOUSLY
Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
PREVIOUS
Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
APPERCEPTION
The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception
IMPERCEPTION
Want of perception.
REPERCEPTION
The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object. No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine. Keats.
MISPERCEPTION
Erroneous perception.