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Show SE SE inftantly make a tranfcurfion throughout the whole 2. An aged perfon A fenior of the place replies Well read, and curious of antiquities Dryden Bacon's Natural Hiflory If we had nought but fenfe, then only the Elder Should have found minds which have their fenfe As in infurreétions the ringleader is looked o But wifdom grows when fenfes do decay And folly noft in quickeft fenfe is found. ~Dawies Sexi10'RITY. 7. /. [from fenior. thip; priority of birth with a peculiar feverity, fo, in this cafe, t‘he firf provoker has, by his feniority and primogeniture, Gowv. of the Tengue double portion of the guilt e was the elder brother, and Ulyffes might b configned to his care by the right due to his feBroome niority SE‘NNA. 7. /. [ fena, Lat. ] A phyfical tree Miller What rhubarb, fenna, or what purgative drug Would fcour thefe Englifh hence Shakefpeare's Macbeth Senna tree is of two forts; the baftard fenna and the fcorpion fenna; both which yield a pleaMortimer fant leaf and flower Se'nNr1GHT. . /. [contradted from fevennight.] 'The {pace of feven nights an days; a week. See FORTNIGHT If mentio is made on Monday of "Thurf{day fennight, the Thur{day that follows the next Thurfday, is meant Time trots hard with a young maid betwee the contra& of her marriage and the day it is fo lemnized: if the interim be but a [e'nnight, time' pace is fo hard.that it feems the length of feve Shakefpeare's As you like it years Seno‘curar. adj. [ feni and oculus, Lat. Having fix eyes Moft animals are binocular, {piders oétonocular Derbam's Phyfico-Thealogy and fome fenocular $Ensa'ri0N. 7. [ [ fenfation, Fr. fenfatio {chool Lat.] Perception by means o the {enfes Diverfity of conftitution, or other circumftances vary the fenfations; and to them of Java pepper i Glanwille's Scepfis cold The brain, diftempered by a cold, beating againf the root of the auditory nerve, and protracted t the tympanum, caufes the [en/ation of noife Harwey on Confumptions "This great fource of moft of the ideas we have depending wholly upon our fenfes, and derived b them to the underfranding, I call fenfation. Locke ‘When we are aflecp, joy and forrow give us mor vigorous fenfations of pain or pleafure than at an other time Addifon ‘The happleft, upon a fair eftimate, have ftronge fenjations of pain than pleafure Rogers SENSE. #. f. [ fens, Fr. fenfus, Lat. 1. Faculty or power by which external objefts are perceived ; the fight, touch hearing fmell tafte But fits and rules within her private bow'rs Dawies Both contai Within them ev'ry lower facult Of fenfe, wheseby they hear, fee, fmell, touch, tafte Milton Of the five fenfes, two are ufually and moft properly called the fenfes of learning, as being mof capable .of receiving communication of though and notions by felected figns; and thefe are hearin and feeing Holder's Elements of Speech 2. Perception by the fenfes ; fenfation In a living creature though never fo great, th Jenfe and the affedts of any ope part of the bod h s of mind To tell him his commandment js f%,bl‘;;eu‘f;hm Sha You blocks! you worfe than fe;],?}:_t/;';l:i@k took as though his miftrefs had given him a fecre reprehenfion Sidney God, to remove his ways from human feafe Itis as repugnant to the idea of fjfb;::m Milton ter, that it fhould put into itfelf fenfe, percepstar3d knowledge, as it is repugnant to :h idea f 4. Senfibility ; quicknefs or keennefs o perception triangle, that it fhould put into it elf grgatero gles than two rig t ones He fhould have liv'd Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous fenfz 2 .IthnreafonabIe 5 ftupid; doltifh; block ftrength of natural reafon 11n They would repent this their fenfelfs perverfenef Oppreft nature fleeps This reft might yet have balm'd thy broken fenfes Shakefpeare God hath endued mankind with powers and abilities which we call natural light and reafon, an common fexfe Bentley There s fomething previous ev'n to tafte; 'ti when it woul If w Pope 6. Reafon ; reafonable meaning She needs muft tell them to their face They were a fenfelefs ftupid race He raves ; his words are loof You fee he knows not me, his natural father That now the wind is got into his head And turns his brains to frenzy Dryden's Spanifp Friar 7. Opinion ; notion ; judgment It is a fenfelefs thing, in reafon, to think thi one of thefe interefts can ftand without the other when, in the very order of natural caufes, goveinSouth's Semit ment is preferved by religion " Other creatures, as well as monkies, litcle vife I fpeak my private but impartial fenf than they, deftroy their young by fenfelsfs fondac freedom, and, I hope, without offence Rofcommon In the due fenfe of my want of learning, I onl Dryden make a confeffion of my own faith 5. Wanting fenfibility; wanting quick ufe effeminate countenance, or that hot-fpurred H palice in Virgil, proceedeth from a fenfelf P"'_ : over-cold judgment L'Effrange 10. Meaning ; import Shakefpeare bee ufe in two or thre Jenfes, and has made a great inroad for error, dro one or two of thofe fenfes, and Jeave it only one remaining, and affix the other fenfes or ideas to othe words Waits's Logick SE'NsED. part. [from fenfe.] Perceived b the fenfes. A word not in ufe Let the fciolift tell me, why things muft need be {o as his individual fenfes reprefent them : ish fure that obje€ls are not otherwife fenfed by others than they are by him? ' And why muft his fenf b th infallible criterion white to us, is black to negroes It ma be wha i Glanwille's Scepfis SE'NSEFUL. adj. [from fenfe. and full. Reafonable ; judicious. Not ufed Men, otherwife fenfeful and ingenious, quote fuc To draw Mars like a young Hippolits, a Some are fo hardened in wickednefs, as to hav My hearty friends Not nefs or keennefs of perception 9. Moral perception In this fenfe, to be preferved from fin is not imHooker poflible L_fldl- and too much embracing 8. Confcioufnefs; conviction You take me in too dolorous a fenfe Swifl 4. Contrary to true judgment; contrar to reafon As heaps of fand, and fcattering wide from fenfe no fenfe of the moft friendly offices be not extremel Clarendn foolifh, thanklefs, o Jenfele[s, a great joy is more apt to cure forroth a great trouble is Tagler The great defign of this author's book is t prove this, which I believe no man in the woi was ever {0 fenfele[s as to deny Tilltf She faw her favour was mifplac'd The fellows had a wretched tafte Goodgr;g, which only is the gift of heaven And, though no fcience, fairly worth the feven A light within yourfelf you muft perceive Jones and Le Notre have it not to give be too late, and when they foung themfelves under a power that would deftroy them a word ha Rowe 5. Underftanding ; foundnefs of faculties ‘Whe ‘The fenfelefs grave feels not your piou forrows Shake[peare Wit L;;l z. Unfeeling; wanting fympathy Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge enfe unk, it The ears are fenfelefs that fholq "Fa,-""‘{%" This Bafilius, having the quick fenfe of a lover Plac'd heav'n from earth fo far That t}{xtroulg(h the great contagion diret ul d&d 3. Perception of intelleét ; apprehenfio And in thofe five all things their forms exprefs Which we can touch, tafte, feel, or hear, or fee ‘The pow'r of fenfe within a greater pow'r Which doth employ and ufe the fenfe's pains The charm and veno Their blood with fecret fiIthwin'f?e}:aflde{l drun 'chg diffufed through thefenfelgj} mm;th time of memory Hale In one fenfe it is, indeed, a building of gold an filver upon the foundation of Chriftianity. illotfon Then is the foul a nature, which contain all life or perception Such is the mighty fwiftnefs of your mind That, like the earth's, it leaves the fenfe behind Dryden This pow'r is fenfe, which from abroad doth brin "The colour, tafte, and touch, and fcent, and found The quantity and fhape of ev'ry thin Within earth's centre or heav'n's circle found And though things fenfible be numberlefs Davwies 3 Waptmg fenfe ; wanting Jife found A haughty prefumption, that becaufe we are encouraged to believe that in fome feafe all things ar made for man, that therefore they are not made a all for themfelves More All before Richard I. is before time of memory and what is fince, is, in a legal fenfe, within th But only five the fenfe's organs be things out of an author as wouly o converfation Bt SE NSELESS, adj, [from/;,,/ 6 Wantin with of knowledge %Z b u"¢°‘ff°1°"s" e d t ' c e d i c e fThe w leep a a h h a i u f i u His f s o g f a o l c f Fatten'd in vic t y D f l h o e e He fins and fees not, fen i Hear t e i r b l You unhous'd, lawlef v l i Senfelefs o d b o 'T‘}{Lje; p{of{;tutio If any one fhould be ant as to fuppofe ma fupidly foun fonably aio g SE R o fi
