perceyven

• parceyven, parseyve, perceive, perceiven, perceyve, perseyve
• parceyve, parseve, perceave, perceve (Late Middle English); parceyvyn (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• parcew (Ireland); persayfe, persave, persawe (Northern)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman parceivre, perceivre, from Latin percipere. Compare percepcioun.

• IPA^(key): /pɛrˈsæi̯vən/, /pɛrˈsɛːvən/, /par-/

perceyven (third-person singular simple present perceyveth, present participle perceyvende, perceyvynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle perceyved)

1. To recognise or perceive:
   1. To observe or notice through direct sensory experience (especially visually).
   2. To comprehend, discover, or realise (a fact or proposition).
      • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 2, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

        I ꝑrceyued of þe power. þat Peter hadde to kepe / To bynden and vnbynden. as þe book telleþ

        I comprehended the power that Peter had to maintain: / to lock and unlock, as the [Good] Book says […]

   3. To pay attention to; to take heed.
2. To receive or acquire; to gain possession of.

• English: perceive
• Middle Scots: persave
  • Scots: perceive

• “perceiven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.