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sensate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɛn.seɪt/
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Etymology

From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

Meanings

1. Perceived by one or more of the senses.
2. Having the ability to sense things physically.
   • Mendicant was able to postpone its inevitable annihilation for [106:S] with its attempt to flee. But the last of its core vessels hangs before me now; crippled and defeated but still sensate. 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
3. Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
   • To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:

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Deriveds

nonsensate · sensately

sensate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɛn.seɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.
   • to sensate light, or an odour
   • c. 1673, Robert Hooke, quoted in The History of the Royal Society of London As those of the one are enated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.

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