v. Obs. Forms: 4–5 apar-, aper-, 5 appar-, apper-, -ceive, -ceyve, -ceve, -seive, 5–6 apperceyve, 6 -ceave, -save, 7 apparceive. [a. OFr. aperceveir, aparcevoir (tonic form aperceive), cogn. w. Sp. apercebir, Pg. aperceber:—late L. or early Rom. *appercipēre for *appercipĕre, f. ap-, ad- to + percipĕre to PERCEIVE. For change to app- see AP- pref.1] To perceive, observe, recognize, notice, remark: a. with simple obj.
c. 1300. Vox & Wolf, 213. Ich the aperseiuede.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 36. 44. Thanne shaltou aperceyve wel the Moevyng of a planete.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xxxviii. 309. Non man hym aparceyven myhte.
1494. Fabyan, I. ii. 9. The which Temple, when Brute had apperceyued, anone he yode into it.
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. Moriæ Enc., S iv b. Some devoute persones … did, without aperceivyng the difference, drinke lampe oyle in steede of wyne.
1614. W. Browne, Sheph. Pipe, I. 25. When apparceived had she this, she cry’d.
b. with of, subord. cl., or absol.
c. 1320. Seuyn Sag. (W.), 1433. The burgeis aparseiued of his wiue Fele nightes was gon him fram.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W.), I. viii. 13 a/2. The holy man aperceyuyd that the bestes were almost deed.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., H vj. As ȝow may appersave be yis calculation.
