What's the difference between percipient and precipient?
Percipient
Definition:
(a.) Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.
(n.) One who, or that which, is percipient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Percipients of aggressive expressions were relatively hesitant about making a new attempt to take the object from the expresser.
(2) The EEG of these subjects was studied in various functional states--a state of relative rest (background) during diagnostics, of directed influence on the percipient and during meditation.
(3) Blind spot enlargement in papilledema has been attributed to either mechanical disruption of the integrity of the peripapillary percipient elements by the swollen optic disk or to the Stiles-Crawford effect.
(4) 1 nonaggressive expression was also followed by percipient hesitancy.
(5) To provide convincing demonstration of such a faculty poses a range of experimental and practical problems, especially if feedback to the percipient is allowed after each trial.
(6) Of his playing in this film, the American critic Pauline Kael percipiently remarked: “He is not allowed to smile the famous smile, or even to look soulfully lovesick.
(7) He was percipient about New Media and the imminent upheavals the Internet would bring and made sure that the BBC had a head start.
(8) Remote viewing is the supposed faculty which enables a percipient, sited in a closed room, to describe the perceptions of a remote agent visiting an unknown target site.
(9) Eleven years earlier, the first-ever use on TV of the offending word - by theatre critic Kenneth Tynan - had resulted in a formal apology by the BBC, four separate House of Commons motions signed by 133 Labour and Tory backbenchers and a letter to the Queen from the morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who urged that Tynan "ought to have his bottom smacked", an accidentally percipient remark given later revelations of Tynan's love of flagellation.
Precipient
Definition:
(a.) Commanding; directing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staining of HVT-infected cell culture by Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDHV) antiserum showed intranuclear fluorescence but attempts to prepare HVT precipitating antigen or to demonstrate cross-precipiation between HVT and MDHV were unsuccessful.
(2) Republicans are also under pressure to lift their refusal to pass a separate spending authorisation, which precipiated a partial shutdown of the government, leading to the lockout of an estimated 800,000 federal workers.
(3) A high concentration of precipiated immune complexes inhibits the in vitro migration of human polymorphnuclear leucocytes.
(4) It is still unclear whether a replication of virus in the synovia or a precipiation of immune complexes is involved.
(5) Clinical data are producted which appear to show that the response to therapy of myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome (MPDS) is much less favorable when the patient has been involved in a road traffic or similar accident which precipiated the condition.
(6) That would have increased the borrowing limit until January 2014 and reopening the government until March, in return for concessions aimed at pleasing Republicans , who precipiated the crisis when they failed to pass a budget resolution to ontinue the funding of federal services without measures designed to undermine the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature healthcare reform.
(7) Prolonged incubation in the presence of VB provoked the disappearance of microtubles and the massive precipiation of microcrystalline material in all parts of the cytoplasmic space.
(8) Data are presented from patients and their therapists that support the concept of a psychotherapy crisis as a major precipient of such visits.