adv. [ See Since. ] Since. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sensated p. pr. & vb. n. Sensating. ] [ See Sensated. ] To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye. R. Hooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. sensatus gifted with sense, intelligent, fr. sensus sense. See Sense. ] Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [ R. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sensation. See Sensate. ] 1. (Physiol.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling. . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sensation caused by the appearance of that work is still remembered by many. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Perception. -- Sensation, Perseption. The distinction between these words, when used in mental philosophy, may be thus stated; if I simply smell a rose, I have a sensation; if I refer that smell to the external object which occasioned it, I have a perception. Thus, the former is mere feeling, without the idea of an object; the latter is the mind's apprehension of some external object as occasioning that feeling. “Sensation properly expresses that change in the state of the mind which is produced by an impression upon an organ of sense (of which change we can conceive the mind to be conscious, without any knowledge of external objects). Perception, on the other hand, expresses the knowledge or the intimations we obtain by means of our sensations concerning the qualities of matter, and consequently involves, in every instance, the notion of externality, or outness, which it is necessary to exclude in order to seize the precise import of the word sensation.” Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Metaph.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Metaph.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sensed p. pr. & vb. n. Sensing. ] To perceive by the senses; to recognize. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him? Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. See, v. t. See Send, and cf. Assent, Consent, Scent, v. t., Sentence, Sentient. ] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What surmounts the reach
Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The traitor Sense recalls
The soaring soul from rest. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

High disdain from sense of injured merit. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. “He speaks sense.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He raves; his words are loose
As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

I speak my private but impartial sense
With freedom. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. [ 1913 Webster ]

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. Neh. viii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think 't was in another sense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Moral perception or appreciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common sense, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) “The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.” (b) “The faculty of first principles.” These two are the philosophical significations. (c) “Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that, if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.” (d) When the substantive is emphasized: “Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.” --
Moral sense. See under Moral, (a). --
The inner sense, or
The internal sense, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. “This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.” Locke. --
Sense capsule (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. --
Sense organ (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. --
Sense organule (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Understanding; reason. -- Sense, Understanding, Reason. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. [ R. ] “Senseful speech.” Spenser. “Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious.” Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]