All 3 Uses of
perceive
in
As You Like It
- Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but Nature's, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses, and hath sent this natural for our whetstone: for always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.†
Scene 1.2
- With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term and term, and then they perceive not how time moves.†
Scene 3.2 *
- I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women;—as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them,—that between you and the women the play may please.†
Scene 5.4
Definition:
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(perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair) to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion