To bring home to one's own case or experience; to consider as one's own; to feel in all its force.--Webster.
This allusion must have enhanced strength and beauty to the eye of a nation extensively devoted to a pastoral life, and therefore realizing all its fine scenes, and the tender emotions to which they gave birth.--Dwight.
This sense of the word is not in the English dictionaries, though Mr. Pickering says it is used in Scotland.