\A`per`[,c]u"\ ([.a]`p[^a]r`s[.u]"), n.; pl. {Aper[,c]us}
(-s[.u]"). [F., prop. p. p. of apercevoir to perceive.]
1. A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so
   obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight,
   appreciative rather than analytic.
         The main object being to develop the several
         aper[,c]us or insights which furnish the method of
         such psychology.                      --W. T.
                                               Harris.
         A series of partial and more or less disparate
         aper[,c]us or outlooks; each for itself a center of
         experience.                           --James Ward.
2. Hence, a brief or detached view; conspectus; sketch.