percipientn.adj.

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. ii. 128 The Animal Spirits in Man..were the very Soule of the Body, and common percipient of all Motions.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 27 The soul is the sole Percipient, which alone hath animadversion and sense properly so called.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. ii. i. 56 Nature passes to the Percipient thro' all the Senses.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. xiv. 214 A kind of feeling, or immediate perception of things present, and in contact with the percipient.

1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 301 In the very act of imagining it, you include an ideal percipient.

1880 19th Cent. 7 355 In any act of perception the matter that is percept or object is commonly outside the organism of the percipient.

1938 C. D. Broad Exam. McTaggart's Philos. II. i. xxvii. 59 The percipient seems to himself to be perceiving foreign bodies or events.

1998 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 56 145/2 The second guideline requires a more active role by the percipient in that she or he is expected to ‘imagine well’.

1883 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1882–3 1 119 In Thought-transference..both parties (whom, for convenience' sake, we will call the Agent and the Percipient) are supposed to be in a normal state.

1966 K. R. Rao Exper. Parapsychol. i. 6 The hypothesis that the percipient, not the agent, is the likely initiator of the psi experience.

2002 Jrnl. Parapsychol. (Nexis) Dec. 343 The third category [dealt] with whether the agent or percipient was the ‘cause’ of the ESP experience.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 14 A percipient and rational Creature.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §4. 137 It..can only be the act of a percipient or thinking being.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. II. iv. iv. 497 Employed in the character of attesting (i.e. percipient and signing) witnesses.

1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. ix. §128. 648 The man becomes through a divine life percipient of God.

1925 J. E. Turner Theory Direct Realism 16 Sense-contents..depend in part for their own existence and character directly upon the existence and activity of the percipient observer or experient.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Dec. 5/3 The narrator's bewildered but subconsciously percipient mind.

1924 Public Opinion 31 Oct. 429/3 How wisely, how percipiently! Scarcely a sentence was marked which he had not known.

1986 Financial Times 23 Aug. p. i/6 But as a local economist noted percipiently, this improbable island..is more like a confidence trick, in which people are willingly persuaded of its stability and its prospects.