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His usual habit was not to consider whether destiny were hard upon him or not—the shape of his ideals in cases of affliction being simply a moody "I am to suffer, I perceive."
Chpt 19 *

perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
When Elizabeth's head rose through the trap she perceived that the upper door was open,
Chpt 33 *

perceived = saw (become aware of)
The effect of it was soon apparent in his manner, and his wife but too sadly perceived that in strenuously steering off the rocks of the licensed liquor-tent she had only got into maelstrom depths here amongst the smugglers.†
Chpt 1
He shouldered his basket and moved on, casting his eyes inquisitively round upon the landscape as he walked, and at the distance of three or four miles perceived the roofs of a village and the tower of a church.†
Chpt 2
They walked with joined hands, and it could be perceived that this was the act of simple affection.†
Chpt 3
The woman had long perceived how zealously and constantly the young mind of her companion was struggling for enlargement; and yet now, in her eighteenth year, it still remained but little unfolded.†
Chpt 4
If he wondered, though all Henchard's carts and waggons were rattling past him, you knew it from perceiving the inside of his crimson mouth, and a target-like circling of his eyes.†
Chpt 9
Just at this time Farfrae, who had been to Henchard's house to look for him, came out of the back gate, and saw something white fluttering in the morning gloom, which he soon perceived to be part of Abel's shirt that showed below his waistcoat.†
Chpt 15
The notes of a stringed band came from the enclosure that Farfrae had erected—the pavilion as he called it—and when the Mayor reached it he perceived that a gigantic tent had been ingeniously constructed without poles or ropes.†
Chpt 16
Then he perceived the immense admiration for the Scotchman that revealed itself in the women's faces; and when this exhibition was over, and a new dance proposed, and Donald had disappeared for a time to return in his natural garments, he had an unlimited choice of partners, every girl being in a coming-on disposition towards one who so thoroughly understood the poetry of motion as he.†
Chpt 16
Elizabeth-Jane had perceived from Henchard's manner that in assenting to dance she had made a mistake of some kind.†
Chpt 17
The writer said that she at length perceived how impossible it would be for any further communications to proceed between them now that his re-marriage had taken place.†
Chpt 18
Now you will, I am sure, perceive that the one condition which will make any future happiness possible for me is that the past connection between our lives be kept secret outside this isle.†
Chpt 18
Perceiving that it was Elizabeth she lapsed into ease, and came across to her with a reckless skip that innate grace only prevented from being boisterous.†
Chpt 22
It happened that to-day there rose in the midst of them all two or three tall apple-trees standing as if they grew on the spot; till it was perceived that they were held by men from the cider-districts who came here to sell them, bringing the clay of their county on their boots.†
Chpt 22
The stint of reciprocal feeling was perceived, and Henchard showed chagrin at once—nobody was more quick to show that than he.†
Chpt 25
Elizabeth-Jane, surveying the position of Lucetta between her two lovers from the crystalline sphere of a straightforward mind, did not fail to perceive that her father, as she called him, and Donald Farfrae became more desperately enamoured of her friend every day.†
Chpt 25
One evening when it was raining so heavily that ivy and laurel resounded like distant musketry, and an out-door man could be excused for shrouding himself to his ears and eyes, such a shrouded figure on foot might have been perceived travelling in the direction of the hazel-copse which dripped over the prophet's cot.†
Chpt 26
But the room was empty, and he perceived that in his haste he had somehow passed her on the way hither.†
Chpt 27
He made the bull fast without, and re-entered to the succour of Lucetta; for he had not perceived Elizabeth, who had climbed on to the clover-heap.†
Chpt 29
Lucetta took no heed, but ran up the back street and reached her own home unperceived.†
Chpt 29

unperceived = not viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperceived means not and reverses the meaning of perceived. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
But the act having lain as dead and buried ever since, the interspace of years was unperceived; and the black spot of his youth wore the aspect of a recent crime.†
Chpt 31
Henchard was more affected by this than he cared to let them perceive, and he turned aside to the window again.†
Chpt 31
Chancing to look out of the window at that moment he saw a flock of people passing by, and perceived them to be the congregation of the upper church, now just dismissed, their sermon having been a longer one than that the lower parish was favoured with.†
Chpt 33
Moreover that thoughtless want of foresight which had led to all her trouble remained with poor Lucetta still; she had come to meet him here in this compromising way without perceiving the risk.†
Chpt 35
The eventful morning was bright, a full-faced sun confronting early window-gazers eastward, and all perceived (for they were practised in weather-lore) that there was permanence in the glow.†
Chpt 37
Neither in back street nor in front street, however, could the disturbers be perceived, and Blowbody and the second constable, who came up at this time, brought similar intelligence.†
Chpt 39
"I know what you think," deprecated Henchard running after, almost bowed down with despair as he perceived the image of unscrupulous villainy that he assumed in his former friend's eyes.†
Chpt 40
In the circular current imparted by the central flow the form was brought forward, till it passed under his eyes; and then he perceived with a sense of horror that it was HIMSELF.†
Chpt 41
He could not but perceive that by the death of Lucetta he had exchanged a looming misery for a simple sorrow.†
Chpt 42
Newson, like a good many rovers and sojourners among strange men and strange moralities, failed to perceive the enormity of Henchard's crime, notwithstanding that he himself had been the chief sufferer therefrom.†
Chpt 43
Her teaching had a reflex action upon herself, insomuch that she thought she could perceive no great personal difference between being respected in the nether parts of Casterbridge and glorified at the uppermost end of the social world.†
Chpt 45

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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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