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"But," resumed the good Oudarde, "you must have perceived to some extent, that yesterday was a festival."
Chpt 1.6.3 *

perceived = seen in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
As he plunged into the side aisles, he perceived a reddish light behind a cluster of pillars.
Chpt 2.9.1 *

perceived = saw
He, on his side, perceived nothing that was going on in the hall; he wagged his head with the unconcern of a Neapolitan, repeating from time to time, amid the clamor, as from a mechanical habit, "Charity, please!"†
Chpt 1.1.4
The novelty of this singular scene excited such a murmur of mirth and gayety in the hall, that the cardinal was not slow to perceive it; he half bent forward, and, as from the point where he was placed he could catch only an imperfect view of Trouillerfou's ignominious doublet, he very naturally imagined that the mendicant was asking alms, and, disgusted with his audacity, he exclaimed: "Bailiff of the Courts, toss me that knave into the river!"†
Chpt 1.1.4
At first he had enjoined the actors, who had stopped in suspense, to continue, and to raise their voices; then, perceiving that no one was listening, he had stopped them; and, during the entire quarter of an hour that the interruption lasted, he had not ceased to stamp, to flounce about, to appeal to Gisquette and Liénarde, and to urge his neighbors to the continuance of the prologue; all in vain.†
Chpt 1.1.4
Gringoire perceived that his music had been carried off by the procession of the Pope of the Fools.†
Chpt 1.1.6
On looking more closely, he perceived that the circle was much larger than was required simply for the purpose of getting warm at the king's fire, and that this concourse of people had not been attracted solely by the beauty of the hundred fagots which were burning.†
Chpt 1.2.3
Then Gringoire saw come up to her, a pretty little white goat, alert, wide-awake, glossy, with gilded horns, gilded hoofs, and gilded collar, which he had not hitherto perceived, and which had remained lying curled up on one corner of the carpet watching his mistress dance.†
Chpt 1.2.3
He then perceived that he was lying half in the middle of the gutter.†
Chpt 1.2.5
On drawing near, he perceived that it was nothing else than a wretched legless cripple in a bowl, who was hopping along on his two hands like a wounded field-spider which has but two legs left.†
Chpt 1.2.6
He was forced to perceive that he was not walking in the Styx, but in mud, that he was elbowed not by demons, but by thieves; that it was not his soul which was in question, but his life (since he lacked that precious conciliator, which places itself so effectually between the bandit and the honest man—a purse).†
Chpt 1.2.6
The band of thieves applauded Clopin's words, and arranged themselves in a circle round the gibbet, with a laugh so pitiless that Gringoire perceived that he amused them too much not to have everything to fear from them.†
Chpt 1.2.6
Perceiving that no respite, nor reprieve, nor subterfuge was possible, he bravely decided upon his course of action; he wound his right foot round his left leg, raised himself on his left foot, and stretched out his arm: but at the moment when his hand touched the manikin, his body, which was now supported upon one leg only, wavered on the stool which had but three; he made an involuntary effort to support himself by the manikin, lost his balance, and fell heavily to the ground, deafened by the fatal vibration of the thousand bells of the manikin, which, yielding to the impulse imparted by his hand, described first a rotary motion, and then swayed majestically between the two posts.†
Chpt 1.2.6
Meanwhile, the first cravings of his stomach having been stilled, Gringoire felt some false shame at perceiving that nothing remained but one apple.†
Chpt 1.2.7
I perceived at the end of a certain time, that I lacked something in every direction; and seeing that I was good for nothing, of my own free will I became a poet and rhymester.†
Chpt 1.2.7
One immediately perceived three long parallel streets, unbroken, undisturbed, traversing, almost in a straight line, all three cities, from one end to the other; from North to South, perpendicularly, to the Seine, which bound them together, mingled them, infused them in each other, poured and transfused the people incessantly, from one to the other, and made one out of the three.†
Chpt 1.3.2
The first pupil whom the Abbé de Saint Pierre de Val, at the moment of beginning his reading on canon law, always perceived, glued to a pillar of the school Saint-Vendregesile, opposite his rostrum, was Claude Frollo, armed with his horn ink-bottle, biting his pen, scribbling on his threadbare knee, and, in winter, blowing on his fingers.†
Chpt 1.4.2
He perceived that there was something else in the world besides the speculations of the Sorbonne, and the verses of Homer; that man needed affections; that life without tenderness and without love was only a set of dry, shrieking, and rending wheels.†
Chpt 1.4.2
Now one perceived with affright at the very top of one of the towers, a fantastic dwarf climbing, writhing, crawling on all fours, descending outside above the abyss, leaping from projection to projection, and going to ransack the belly of some sculptured gorgon; it was Quasimodo dislodging the crows.†
Chpt 1.4.3
The other did not perceive it.†
Chpt 1.5.1
I have not crawled so long, flat on my belly, with my nails in the earth, through the innumerable ramifications of its caverns, without perceiving far in front of me, at the end of the obscure gallery, a light, a flame, a something, the reflection, no doubt, of the dazzling central laboratory where the patient and the wise have found out God.†
Chpt 1.5.1
But underlying this thought, the first and most simple one, no doubt, there was in our opinion another, newer one, a corollary of the first, less easy to perceive and more easy to contest, a view as philosophical and belonging no longer to the priest alone but to the savant and the artist.†
Chpt 1.5.2
We repeat, who does not perceive that in this form it is far more indelible?†
Chpt 1.5.2
At this unlucky question, a burst of laughter rose from the clerk's table caught by the audience, so violent, so wild, so contagious, so universal, that the two deaf men were forced to perceive it.†
Chpt 1.6.1
—nothing of all this was perceived by the crowd.†
Chpt 1.6.2
And this caused the people, whose good sense does not perceive so much refinement in things, and likes to translate Ludovico Magno by "Porte Saint-Denis," to give to this dark, gloomy, damp cavity, the name of "The Rat-Hole."†
Chpt 1.6.2
—We immediately perceived that she was ruined, one Sunday when she came to church with a gold cross about her neck.†
Chpt 1.6.3
She had recognized this fact after having tried to love a thief, the only man who wanted her; but after a short time, she perceived that the thief despised her.†
Chpt 1.6.3
Eustache, who, up to that moment had been diverted by a little carriage drawn by a large dog, which had just passed, suddenly perceived that his three conductresses were gazing at something through the window, and, curiosity taking possession of him in his turn, he climbed upon a stone post, elevated himself on tiptoe, and applied his fat, red face to the opening, shouting, "Mother, let me see too!"†
Chpt 1.6.3
"I do perceive it," said the recluse; "'tis two days now since I have had any water in my crock."†
Chpt 1.6.3
As the reader perceives, the pillory of the Grève was far from presenting all the recreations of the pillory of the Halles.†
Chpt 1.6.4
The poor dame, very much infatuated with her daughter, like any other silly mother, did not perceive the officer's lack of enthusiasm, and strove in low tones to call his attention to the infinite grace with which Fleur-de-Lys used her needle or wound her skein.†
Chpt 2.7.1
It chanced that upon a fine morning in this same month of March, I think it was on Saturday the 29th, Saint Eustache's day, our young friend the student, Jehan Frollo du Moulin, perceived, as he was dressing himself, that his breeches, which contained his purse, gave out no metallic ring.†
Chpt 2.7.4
Charmolue, following the direction of his glance, perceived that it was fixed mechanically on the great spider's web which draped the window.†
Chpt 2.7.5
thou hast not perceived that subtle spider's web, stretched by destiny betwixt the light and thee—thou hast flung thyself headlong into it, and now thou art struggling with head broken and mangled wings between the iron antennae of fate!†
Chpt 2.7.5
On emerging into the Rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Captain Phoebus perceived that some one was following him.†
Chpt 2.7.7
On glancing sideways by chance, he perceived a sort of shadow crawling after him along the walls.†
Chpt 2.7.7
She did not appear to perceive it.†
Chpt 2.7.8
One day, as he was passing sadly before the criminal Tournelle, he perceived a considerable crowd at one of the gates of the Palais de Justice.†
Chpt 2.8.1
Then I perceived the snare of the demon, and I no longer doubted that you had come from hell and that you had come thence for my perdition.†
Chpt 2.8.4
All at once, beside her cell, she perceived a priest making a pretext of reading the public breviary, but who was much less occupied with the "lectern of latticed iron," than with the gallows, toward which he cast a fierce and gloomy glance from time to time.†
Chpt 2.8.5
He perceived in all these incidents much more magic than love, probably a sorceress, perhaps the devil; a comedy, in short, or to speak in the language of that day, a very disagreeable mystery, in which he played a very awkward part, the role of blows and derision.†
Chpt 2.8.6
And as he thus sifted his soul to the bottom, when he perceived how large a space nature had prepared there for the passions, he sneered still more bitterly.†
Chpt 2.9.1
He believed himself to be far away from Paris; on taking his bearings, he perceived that he had only circled the enclosure of the University.†
Chpt 2.9.1
When the boatman had taken his departure, he remained standing stupidly on the strand, staring straight before him and perceiving objects only through magnifying oscillations which rendered everything a sort of phantasmagoria to him.†
Chpt 2.9.1
The archdeacon, on perceiving these wan spots all around the choir, thought he beheld the mitres of damned bishops.†
Chpt 2.9.1
Over the edge of her roof she perceived the tops of thousands of chimneys which caused the smoke of all the fires in Paris to rise beneath her eyes.†
Chpt 2.9.2
On the following morning, she perceived on awaking, that she had been asleep.†
Chpt 2.9.3
She did her best not to turn aside with too much repugnance when he came to bring her her basket of provisions or her jug of water, but he always perceived the slightest movement of this sort, and then he withdrew sadly.†
Chpt 2.9.4
But as soon as she perceived him, he disappeared.†
Chpt 2.9.4

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(1) (perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair)
to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
(2) (perceive as in: though blind, can perceive light)
to become aware of -- especially by using the senses (to see, hear, smell, feel, or taste)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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