All 4 Uses of
perceive
in
King Lear
- Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness: I will look further into't.†
Scene 1.4
- I will seek him, and privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: if he ask for me, I am ill, and gone to bed.†
Scene 3.3
- I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.†
Scene 3.5
- Shut your mouth, dame, Or with this paper shall I stop it:—Hold, sir; Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil:— No tearing, lady; I perceive you know it.†
Scene 5.2 *
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