All 5 Uses

perceive
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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The reader of nice perceptions will here perceive that, it being morning, Turkey's answer is couched in polite and tranquil terms, but Nippers replies in ill-tempered ones.
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perceive = see (became aware)
And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the soul rid of it.
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perceived = viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
When I consider how, amid the stillness of my chambers, Nippers would sometimes impatiently rise from his seat, and stooping over his table, spread his arms wide apart, seize the whole desk, and move it, and jerk it, with a grim, grinding motion on the floor, as if the table were a perverse voluntary agent, intent on thwarting and vexing him; I plainly perceive that for Nippers, brandy and water were altogether superfluous.†
I looked steadfastly at him, and perceived that his eyes looked dull and glazed.†
As soon as tranquility returned I distinctly perceived that I had now done all that I possibly could, both in respect to the demands of the landlord and his tenants, and with regard to my own desire and sense of duty, to benefit Bartleby, and shield him from rude persecution.†

Definitions:

(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)