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Show SE SE SE \eNSIBYLITY. 7. [ [ fenfibilité, French, 8. In low converfation it has fometime SE'NSITIVELY. adv. [from fenfitive.] I a {enfitive manner the fenfe of reafonable ; judicious ; wife Quicknefs of {enfation Quicknels of perception ; delicacy Modefty is a kind of quick and delicat I have been tired with account feclin \in the foul; it is fuch an exquifite fenfibility, a & warns a woman to fhun the firft appearance of ever Addifon's Spetator ‘thing hurtful ‘Ns1BLE adjc [ /fenfible, French ; fenfi /s, Latin. Having the power of perceiving by th *4) fenfes . Would your cambrick were as fenfible as you %y, finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity Shakefpeare bk Thefe be thofe difcourfes of God whofe effect in themfelves thofe that live witnef the [enfidl in their fenfible natures, thereafonable in their rea Raleigh Tonable fouls conceive A blind ma not colours but unde he notion of fome other fenfible faculty Glanwille's Scepfis 1 Perceptible by the fenfes By reafon man attaineth unto the knowledg %2 hings that are an uhe herefore S are not fenfible it refteth that we fearch how man attaineth unt Hooker e known . Is this a dagger which I fee before me . T[hehandle tow'rd my hand ? Come, let me clutc thee " have thee not, and yet I fee thee ftill . Art thou not, fatal vifion, fenfibl Shakefpeare's Macberh . [o feeling as to fight " The fpace left and acquired in every fenfible "noment in fuch flow progreflions, is fo inconfi"erable, that it cannot pofdibly move the fenfe Glanwille's Scepfis Tt is manifelt that the heavens are void of al " nfible refiftance, and by confequence of all fenfibl DNeavton .. Jatter " The greater pait of men.are no otherwife move ~"han by fenfe, and hawve neither leifure nor abilit ) to improve their power of refieCtion, as to b "apable of conceiving the divine perfedions, withRogers ""ut the afliftance of fenfible objetts "% Air is fenfible to the touch by its motion, and b # s refiftance to bodies moved in ite Arbuth. on Air I'Perceived by the mind ¢ Idlenefs was punithed by fo many ftripes in pub"¢k, and the difgrace was more fenfible than th ain Temple Perceiving by either mind or {enfes "1aving perception by the mind or fenfes This muft need yhe fenfidle of pain ‘Y faw you in the eaf 5 foon fenfible as any o ""ag outy and beginnin ‘1eridian remov Milton at your firlt arifing : 1 wa that light, when juft fhootto travel upwards to th ; Dryden # 1do not fay there is no foul in man, becaufe h ‘i not fenfible of it in his fleep; but I do fay, h annot think at any time, waking or fleeping "rithout being fenfible of it Locke ~ The verfification is as beautiful as the deferip 7lon complete; every ear muft be fenfible of it Broome's Notes on the Ody/féy /Having moral perception ; having th quality of being affeéted by metal goo Ar ill + If thou wert Jenfible of courtefy / Thould not make fo great a fhew of zeal Shak ing eafily or firongly affected V E"e{‘ I, the bold, the fenfible of wrong Xeftrain'd by thame, was forc'd to hold my tongue _2# Convinced ; perfuaded Dryden A low ufe 'm'flf‘:;yt;m' very [enfible that they had better hav eir conquefts on the other fide of the driatick5 for then their territories would hav fin together Addifon which hav Addifon SE'NSIBLENESS. 7. /i [from Jenfible. 1. Poflibility to be perceived by the fenfes 2. Attual perception by mind or body. 3. Quicknefs of perception ; fenfibility ‘Uhe fenfiblenefs of the eye renders it fubject t pain, as alfo unfit to be drefled with fharp medicaments Sharp 4. Painful confcioufnefs There is no conditio of fou mor wretche than that of the fenfelefs obdurate finner, being kind of numbnefs of foul ; and, contrariwife, thi feeling and fenfiblenefs, and forrow for fin, the mof vital quality Hammond 5. Judgment; reafonablenefs. An ufe no admitted but in converfation SE'NSIBLY. adv. [from fenfble. 1. Perceptibly to the fenfes He is your brother, lords5 fen/fibly fe Of that felf-blood that firft gave life to you Shak A fudden pain in my right foot increafed fen/i bly Temple The falts of human urine may, by the violen motion of the blood, be turned alkaline, and eve corrofive; -and fo they affeét the fibres of the brai mor fenfibly than other parts Arbuthnot z. With perception of either mind or body 3. Externally ; by impreflion on the fenfes That church of Chrift, which we properly ter bis body myftical, can be but one; ncither ca that one be fenfibly difcerned by any, inafmuch a the parts thereof are fome in heaven already wit Chrift Hooker 4. With quick intelle@tual perception 5. [Inlow language.] Judiciouily; reafonably SE'NSITIVE. adj. [ fenfitif, Fr.] Havin fenfe or perception, but not reafon The fenfitive faculty may have a fenfitive love o dome fenfitive objeéts, which though moderated f a not to fall into fin yet, through the nature o man's fenfe, may exprefs itfelf more fenfitively towards that inferior objeét than towards God : thi is. a piece of human frailty Hammond All the aétions of the fenfitive appetite are i painting called paflions, becaufe the foul is agitate by them, and becaufe the body fuffers and is fenfibly altered Dryden Bodies are fuch as are endutd with a vegetativ foul, as plants; a fenfitive foul, as animals; or rational foul, as the body of man Ray Sewsitive Plant. u. f. [mimofa, Latin. A plant The flower confifts of one leaf, which is fhape like a funnel, having many ftamina in the centre thefe flowers are colleted into a round head : fro the bottom of the flower rifes the piftillum, whic afterwards becomes an oblong flat-jointed pod which opens both ways, and contains in each par tition one roundifh feed. Of this plant the humbl plants are a {pecies, which are fo called, becaufe upon being touched, the pedicle of their leaves fall downward ; but the leaves of the fenfitive plant ar only contracted Miller Vegetables have many of them fome degrees o motion Having quick intellectual feeling 5 be furnifhed with matters of fact happened within their own knowledge o he knowledge of fuch things unfenfible as are t men from fenfibl and upo th differen applicatio o other bodies to them, do very brifkly alter thei figure and motion, and fo have obtained the nam of fenfitive plants, from a motion whic ha fom refemblance to that which in animals follows upo fenfation Locke Whence does it happen that the plant, which wel We name the [enfitive, fhould move and feel Whence know her leaves to anfwer her comménd And with quick horror fly the neighb'ring hand Prior The Jenfitive plant is fo called, becaufe, as foo as you touch it, the leaf fhrinks Mortimer The fenfitive faculty, through the nature o man's fenfe, may exprefs itfelf more fenfitively to wards an inferior objeét than towards God: thi Hammond is a piece of frailty NS SE'NSORY / S]:.f\ L?O R[,(.]‘k, o [Latm. Ao 1. The part where the fenfes tranfmit thei perceptions to the mind; the feat o {enfe Spiritual fpecies, both vifible and audible, wil work upon the fen/orics, though they move not an Bdeon other body As found in a bell, or mufical ftring or éthe founding body, is nothing but a trembling motion and the air nothing but that motion propagate fram the objeét, in the fenforium it is a fenfe o Newton that motion under the form of found Is not the fénfory of animals the place to whic the fenfitive fubftance is prefent, and into whic the fenfible fpecies of things are carried throug the nerves of the brain, that there they may b perceived by their immediate prefence to that fubNewton's Opticks ftance 2. Organ of fenfation That we all have double [enfories, two eyes, tw ears, is an effe€tual confutation of this atheiftica Bentley fophifm SE'NSUAL. adj. [ fenfuel, French. 1. Confifting in fenfe ; depending on fenfe aftecting the fenfes Me in general are too partial in favour of Jenfual appetite to take notice of truth when the have found it L'Eftrange Far as creation's ample range extends The fcale of fenfual, mental pow'rs afcends 2. Pleafin t th fenfes Pope carnal no {piritual The greateft part of men are fuch as prefer thei own private good before all things, even that goo which is fenfual before whatfoever is moft divine Hooker 3. Devoted to fenfe ; lewd luxurious From amid{t them rof Belial, the diffoluteft fpirit that fell The fenfuallef}, and after Afmoda The flethlicft, incubus Miltos No fmall part of virtue confifts in abftainin from that wherein fenfual men place their felicity " Arterbary Se'NsuALIST. 7. /. [from fenfual. nal perfon pleafures on A car devoted to corpora Let atheifts and fenfualifts fatisfy themfelves a they are ablej the former of which will find that, as long as reafon keeps her ground, religio neither can nor will lofe hers . South Sensva'riTy votednef to 2. /£ [from fenfual. De the . fenfes ; addiction t brutal and corporal pleafures But you are more intemperate in your bloo Than Venus, or thofe pamper'd animal That rage in favage fenfuality Shakefpears Kill not her quick'ning pow'r with furfeitings Mar not her fenfe with fenfuality Caft not her ferious wit on idle things Make not her free-will flave to vanity Dawies Senfuality is one kind of pleafure, fuch an one a itis South They avoid drefs, left they fhould have affe&ion tainted by any [enfuality, and diverted from the lov of him who is to be the only comfort and deligh Addifon of their whole beings Impure and brutal fenfzality was too much confirmed by the religion of thofe countries, wher even Venus and Bacchus had their temples. Bentley 70 SE'NSUALIZE @.a& [from fenfual. To fink to fenfual pleafures ; to degrad the mind into fubjetion to the {enfes Not to fuffer one's felf to be fenfualined by plea G fures |