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Sensate

//ˈsɛn.seɪt// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Perceived by one or more of the senses.
  2. 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."

  3. 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"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having physical sensation wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive. transitive

    "to sensate light, or an odour"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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