Perceive vs. Believe

Perceiveverb

(transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses or by thinking; to see; to understand.

Believeverb

(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

‘If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.’; ‘I believe there are faeries.’;

Perceiveverb

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.

Believeverb

(transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.

‘Why did I ever believe you?’;

Perceiveverb

To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.

‘Jesus perceived their wickedness.’; ‘You may, fair lady,Perceive I speak sincerely.’; ‘Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark.’;

Believeverb

(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

‘After that night in the church, I believed.’;

Perceiveverb

To be affected of influented by.

‘The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below.’;

Believeverb

To consider likely

Perceiveverb

to become aware of through the senses;

‘I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon’;

Believeverb

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

‘Our conqueror (whom I nowOf force believe almighty).’; ‘King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets ?’; ‘Often followed by a dependent clause.I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’;

Perceiveverb

become conscious of;

‘She finally perceived the futility of her protest’;

Believeverb

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

‘Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.’; ‘With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.’;

Perceiveverb

become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand

‘he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments’; ‘his mouth fell open as he perceived the truth’;

Believeverb

To think; to suppose.

‘I will not believe so meanly of you.’;

Perceiveverb

become aware of (something) by the use of one of the senses, especially that of sight

‘he perceived the faintest of flushes creeping up her neck’;

Believeverb

accept as true; take to be true;

‘I believed his report’; ‘We didn't believe his stories from the War’; ‘She believes in spirits’;

Perceiveverb

interpret or regard (someone or something) in a particular way

‘if Guy does not perceive himself as disabled, nobody else should’; ‘some geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific enquiry’;

Believeverb

judge or regard; look upon; judge;

‘I think he is very smart’; ‘I believe her to be very smart’; ‘I think that he is her boyfriend’; ‘The racist conceives such people to be inferior’;

Believeverb

be confident about something;

‘I believe that he will come back from the war’;

Believeverb

follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer;

‘When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too’;

Believeverb

credit with veracity;

‘You cannot believe this man’; ‘Should we believe a publication like the National Inquirer?’;

Believeverb

accept that (something) is true, especially without proof

‘the superintendent believed Lancaster's story’; ‘some 23 per cent believe that smoking keeps down weight’;

Believeverb

accept the statement of (someone) as true

‘he didn't believe her’;

Believeverb

have religious faith

‘there are those on the fringes of the Church who do not really believe’;

Believeverb

feel sure that (someone) is capable of doing something

‘I wouldn't have believed it of Lavinia—what an extraordinary woman!’;

Believeverb

hold (something) as an opinion; think

‘I believe we've already met’; ‘four men were believed to be trapped’;