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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Cognizance by the senses or intellect; apprehension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apprehension; cognition.

2. (n.) 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 apprehending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.

3. (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.

4. (n.) An idea; a notion.

Greek

144. aisthesis -- perception
... perception. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aisthesis Phonetic Spelling:
(ah'-ee-sthay-sis) Short Definition: perception Definition: perception ...
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145. aistheterion -- organ of perception
... organ of perception. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: aistheterion
Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-sthay-tay'-ree-on) Short Definition: perceptive faculty ...
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3708. horao -- to see, perceive, attend to
... 3708 -- properly,, often with meaning: "to see with the mind" (ie spiritually
see), ie perceive (with inward spiritual perception). ...
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4457. porosis -- a covering with a callous, fig. blindness
... or in general" (, 97); "originally and then the of this, ie metaphorically applied
to organs of feeling, meaning of the faculty of perception, " (Souter). ...
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1611. ekstasis -- a displacement (of the mind), ie bewilderment ...
... out" in trance-like amazement. This state of mind reaches the powers of
ordinary perception. Word Origin from existemi Definition ...
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4456. poroo -- to petrify, ie to harden
... marble) -- properly, made of ; (figuratively) ; dull, as ; calloused (hardened);
ie unresponsive (dense), completely lacking sensitivity or spiritual perception ...
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5187. tuphoo -- to be conceited, foolish
... up the air; (figuratively) having a cloudy (muddled) mind-set, ie moral blindness
resulting from poor judgment which brings further loss of spiritual perception ...
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3775. ous -- the ear
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: ous Phonetic Spelling: (ooce) Short Definition:
the ear Definition: (a) the ear, (b) met: the faculty of perception. ...
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4641. sklerokardia -- hardness of heart
... hardness of heart. Feminine of a compound of skleros and kardia; hard-heartedness,
ie (specially), destitution of (spiritual) perception -- hardness of heart. ...
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4893. suneidesis -- consciousness, spec. conscience
... conscience. From a prolonged form of suneido; co-perception, ie Moral consciousness --
conscience. see GREEK suneido. (suneidesei) -- 3 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2940. taam -- taste, judgment
... From ta'am; properly, a taste, ie (figuratively) perception; by implication,
intelligence; transitively, a mandate -- advice, behaviour, decree, discretion ...
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Library

Sixth Tractate. Perception and Memory.
... THE FOURTH ENNEAD SIXTH TRACTATE. PERCEPTION AND MEMORY. 1. Perceptions
are no imprints, we have said, are not to be thought of ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/sixth tractate perception and memory.htm

Whether Even vices Themselves as Objects of Intellectual ...
... Chapter 6. "Whether Even Vices Themselves as Objects of Intellectual Apprehension
are to Be Preferred to Light as an Object of Sense Perception, and are to ...
/.../chapter 6 name even vices.htm

That the Pre-Eminent Cause of Every Object of Sensible Perception ...
... MYSTIC THEOLOGY. CAPUT IV. That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of sensible
perception is none of the objects of sensible perception. SECTION I. ...
/.../dionysius/mystic theology/caput iv that the pre-eminent.htm

That the Pre-Eminent Cause of Every Object of Intelligible ...
... MYSTIC THEOLOGY. CAPUT V. That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of intelligible
perception is none of the objects of intelligible perception. ...
/.../dionysius/mystic theology/caput v that the pre-eminent.htm

How we are Rendered Apt for the Perception of Truth through the ...
... Book IV. Chapter 2."How We are Rendered Apt for the Perception of Truth
Through the Incarnate Word. 4. But "the light shineth ...
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Species is Produced by Species in Succession.
... For there are two kinds of vision, the one of [sensuous] perception (sentientis),
the other of conception (cogitantis). But in order ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 9 species is produced by.htm

What was the First Cause of Making Images; of the True Likeness of ...
... adore, and therefore they set up images; and since these are representations of
the dead, they resemble the dead, for they are entirely destitute of perception ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap ii what was the first.htm

The Religious Uses of Memory
... But what I wish particularly to notice is that He traces the disciples' slowness
of perception and distrust mainly to forgetfulness. ...
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Introduction to 'epinoia
... by which we discover things that are unknown, going on to further discoveries, by
means of what adjoins and follows from our first perception with regard to ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/introduction to epinoia.htm

That the Self-Existent Being must be Intelligent.
... Since in men in particular there is undeniably that power, which we call thought,
intelligence, consciousness, perception or knowledge; there must of necessity ...
/.../viii proposition viii that the.htm

Thesaurus

Perception (1 Occurrence)
... sensation; sensibility. 4. (n.) An idea; a notion. Multi-Version Concordance
Perception (1 Occurrence). Philippians 1:9 And it is ...
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Sense (195 Occurrences)
... See Temperature. 2. (vt) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation;
sensibility; feeling. ... 7. (vt) Moral perception or appreciation. ...
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Feel (58 Occurrences)
... 6. (vi) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves
of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. ...
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Sensible (15 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice
perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by ...
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Taste (46 Occurrences)
... 8. (vi) To take sparingly. 9. (vi) To have perception, experience, or enjoyment;
to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. 10. (n.) The act of tasting. 11. ...
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Ear (670 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating
between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. ...
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Mistake (5 Occurrences)
... to mistake one's meaning. 4. (vt) To substitute in thought or perception;
as, to mistake one person for another. 5. (vt) To have ...
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Blindness (7 Occurrences)
... BLINDNESS. blind'-ness (`awar, and variants; tuphlos): The word blind is used as
a verb, as John 12:40, usually in the sense of obscuring spiritual perception. ...
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Perch (2 Occurrences)

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Perceiving (25 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Perception (1 Occurrence)

Philippians 1:9 And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ,
(WEY)

Subtopics

Perception

Related Terms

Sense (195 Occurrences)

Feel (58 Occurrences)

Sensible (15 Occurrences)

Taste (46 Occurrences)

Ear (670 Occurrences)

Mistake (5 Occurrences)

Blindness (7 Occurrences)

Perch (2 Occurrences)

Perceiving (25 Occurrences)