Noah Webster
Perceive
PERCE'IVE, verb transitive [Latin percipio; per and capio, to take.]
1. To have knowledge or receive impressions of external objects through the medium or instrumentality of the senses or bodily organs; as, to perceive light or color; to perceive the cold or ice or the taste of honey.
2. To know; to understand; to observe.
Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understanding, we are in the dark.
3. To be affected by; to receive impressions from.
The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air below.