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Sensory

//ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the physical senses or sensation. not-comparable

    "The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow."

  2. 2
    Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers. not-comparable

    "sensory neurons"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system wordnet
  2. 2
    involving or derived from the senses wordnet
  3. 3
    relating to or concerned in sensation wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The sensorium. dated

    "Is not the Senſory of Animals that place to which the ſenſitive Subſtance is preſent, and into which the ſenſible Species of Things are carried through the Nerves and Brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate preſence to that ſubſtance ?"

  2. 2
    An organ or faculty of sense. obsolete

    "BOth of them ſpread themſelues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits : and are carried a great way : And doe languiſh and leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Obiects from the Senſories."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From sense + -ory.

Etymology 2

From sense + -ory.

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