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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

percipiens

-entis

, p. pr. of

percipere

. See

Having the faculty of perception; perceiving;

as, a

percipient

being

Bentley.

–

Noun.

One who, or that which, is percipient.

Glanvill.

Adj.

[L. percipiens.] Perceiving; having the faculty of perception. Animals are percipient beings; mere matter is not percipient.

Noun.

One that perceives or has the faculty of perception.