To take or receiue: to comprehend: to vnderstand: to learne: to know: to perceiue. Diligenter percipere aliquam disciplinam. Qui. Diligently to learne. Diligenter quæ dicÛtur percipere, & ea penitus animis no stris mandare. C. Diligently to heare & vnderstand what one doth say, and deepely to commit it to memorie. Facile aliquid percipere. Quin. Easily to vnderstand. Animo percipere aliquid, & memoria custodire. Cic. Artem percipere. Cic. To learne an arte or science. Disciplinas singulas percipere. Cic. To learne. Doctrinam percipere. Cic. Dolores percipere. Cic. To conceiue sorrow. Fames percipit ventris medullam. Plaut. Hunger gnaweth out my guttes. Fructum ex arbore percipere. Plin. To take or gather fruit of a tree. Fructum victoriæ percipere. Cice. To take the fruit of his victorie. Gaudia secura percepit. Ouid. Iucunditatem vel lætitiam percipere. Ci. To take pleasure and ioy. Luctus percipere. Cic. To conceiue sorrow. Neque agri, ueque vrbis odium me vnquam percipit. Ter. I am neuer throughly wearie either of being in the coÛtrey or in the citie. Memoria percipere. Cic. To compr ehend in memorie. Nomina omnium ciuium percipere. Cic. To comprehende or haue in memorie all the citizens names. Oculis aliquid percipere. Cic. To see perfitely. Odium vitæ percipit humanos. Lucret. Men are wearie of their liues. Præmium percipere. Cæs. To receiue rewarde. Sensibus percipere. Cic. Animo victoriam percipere. Cæsar. To conceiue that they were sure of victorie. Voluptatem percipere Cic. To take pleasure. Vsum alicuius rei quotidiana consuetudine percipere. Cæs. By daily custome to learne to vse a thing. Percipere. Plaut. To perceiue: to know: to vnderstande. Ex dissensionibus, atque ex discordijs percipi potest. Cic. It may be perceiued.

I. Lit.

A. To take possession of, to seize, occupy: mihi horror misero membra percipit dictis tuis, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 66: priusquam percipit (eum) insania, id. Men. 5, 5, 22; id. Stich. 2, 2, 17: neque urbis odium me umquam percipit, Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 2: vitae percipit humanos odium, Lucr. 3, 80; 5, 605.—

B. To take to one's self, to assume: varii sensus animantibus insunt, quorum quisque suam proprie rem percipit in se, Lucr. 6, 985: rigorem, Ov. M. 4, 745: colorem, Plin. 21, 5, 13, 26: sucum thymi, Col. 11, 3, 40.—

C. To get, obtain, receive: serere, percipere, condere fructus, to gather, collect, Cic. Sen. 7, 24: praemia, Caes. B. C. 2, 32: fructum ex oleā, Plin. 15, 1, 1, 3: civitatem ab aliquo, Just. 43, 5, 13: hereditatem, Suet. Tib. 15; Petr. 141.—

II. Trop. (so most freq. in class. lang.; syn.: sentio, intellego, comprehendo).

A. To perceive, observe: ne, quod hic agimus, erus percipiat fieri, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 2: quod neque oculis, neque auribus, neque ullo sensu percipi potest, Cic. Or. 2, 8: crebraeque nunc querelae, nunc minae percipiebantur, were heard, Caes. B. C. 3, 84; Liv. 2, 3, 5: quae dicam, i. e. hear, Cic. Cat. 1, 11, 27: et aures, cum sonum percipere debeant, id. N. D. 2, 56, 141; so, percipe auribus, hear, give ear, Vulg. Psa. 16, 1 et saep.—

B. To feel: neque majorem voluptatem ex infinito tempore aetatis percipi posse, quam ex hoc percipiatur, Cic. Fin. 1, 19, 63: voluptatem, id. ib. 1, 11, 37: luctus, id. Fam. 14, 11: dolores, id. ib. 14, 11: gaudia, Ov. P. 2, 1, 60.—

C. To learn, know, conceive, comprehend, understand, perceive, etc.: res percepta et cognita, Cic. Ac. 2, 14, 44: percipere et comprehendere, id. ib. 2, 8, 26: cognosci et percipi posse, id. Fin. 1, 19, 64: aliquid animo, id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: artificium aliquod, id. ib. 1, 28, 127: virtutem et humanitatem, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 10: philosophiam, id. de Or. 1, 51, 219: praecepta artis, id. Off. 1, 18, 60: omnium civium nomina perceperat, knew, id. Sen. 7, 21: nomen Graecum, sed perceptum usu a nostris, known, id. N. D. 2, 36, 91.—Hence, perceptus, a, um, P. a., perceived, observed.—Hence, subst.: percep-ta, ōrum, n., doctrines, principles, rules of an art or science: percepta appello, quae dicuntur Graecis qewrh/mata, Cic. Fat. 6, 11. —Sing.: pro percepto liquere, as proved, certain, Gell. 14, 1, 11.