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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Sĕn'e-gal, n. p. 1201Gum senegal. See GUM.Se-nĕs'çence, n. p. 1201The state of growing old; decay by time.Se-nĕs'cent, a. p. 1201Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.Sĕn'es-chal, n. p. 1201A steward; an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, who has the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies. In some instances, the seneschal is an officer who has the dispensing of…Sĕn'es-chal-shĭp, n. p. 1201The office or dignity of a seneschal.Sĕn'green, n. p. 1201(Bot.) A plant, the houseleek.Sē’nile, a. p. 1201Pertaining to old age; proceeding from age.Se-nil'i-ty, n. p. 1201The state of being senile; old age.Sēn'ior, a. p. 1201More advanced in age, or in office or dignity; prior in age or rank; elder. 2. Belonging to the fourth year of the collegiate course in American colleges, or the third year in professional schools.Sēn'ior, n. p. 1201A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life. 2. One older in office, or whose first entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade or rank. 3. An aged…Sēn-iŏr'i-ty, n. p. 1201The quality or condition of being senior; superior age; priority of birth; eldership. 2. Priority or superiority in office or rank; as, the seniority of a pastor or counselor.Sén'ior-ize, v. i. p. 1201To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. [Obs.]Sēn'ior-y, n. p. 1201The same as SENIORITY. [Obs.]Sĕn'nā, n. p. 1201(Bot.) A leguminous plant, and especially its leaves, which last are largely used in medicine as a cathartic. They are obtained from various species of Cassia, native to the East, but now cultivated…Sén'na-chy, n. p. 1201The same as SEANNACHIE. See SEANNACHIE.Sĕn'net, n. p. 1201A particular time or mode of martial music. Johnson.Sĕn' night, n. p. 1201The space of seven nights and days; a week.Sēn'nit, n. p. 1201(Naut.) A flat, braided cord, formed by plaiting rope-yarns together. Totten. 2. Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.Se-nŏc'ū-lar, a. p. 1201Having six eyes. [Rare.] Most animals are binocular, spiders octonocular, and some senocular. Derham.Sén'sâte, v. t. p. 1201To apprehend by the senses or the intelligence; to have perception of as an object of sense. John Smith, of Cambridge.Sĕn'sate or Sĕn'sā-ted, a. p. 1201Perceived by the senses.Sen-sā'tion, n. p. 1201An impression made upon the mind through the medium of the organs of sense; feeling awakened by external objects, or by some change in the internal state of the body; as, a sensation of heaviness, or…Sen-sā'tion-al, a. p. 1201Pertaining to the sensations. 2. Attended by, or fitted to excite, great interest. 3. Belonging to sensationalism. “Sensational metaphysics.” Morell.Sen-sā'tion-al-iṣm, n. p. 1201The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensationalism. Fraser.Sen-sā'tion-al-ist, n. p. 1201An advocate of, or believer in, sensationalism.Sense, n. p. 1201Perception by the bodily organs; sensation; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transfusion through the whole.…Sĕnse, v. t. p. 1201To perceive by the senses; to recognize. [Obs.] Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others as by him? Glanville.Sĕnse'ful, a. p. 1201Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. [Obs.] Norris.Sênse'less, a. p. 1201Destitute of sense; wanting the power of sensation or perception; incapable of feeling; void of apparent life; insensible; as, the body, when dead, is senseless; or, a limb or other part of the body…Sĕnse'less-ly, adv. p. 1201In a senseless manner; stupidly; unreasonably; as, a man senselessly arrogant.Sēnsē'less-ness, n. p. 1201The state or quality of being senseless; unreasonableness; folly; stupidity.Sĕn'si-bil'i-ty, n. p. 1201The quality or condition of being sensible; susceptibility of impression; capacity to feel or perceive; —applied especially to animal bodies; as, a frozen limb loses its sensibility. 2. Hence…Sĕn’si-ble, a. p. 1201Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding. Air is sensible…Sèn'si-ble, n. p. 1201That which impresses itself on the senses; that which causes pleasure or pain; something perceptible; a material substance or thing; that which is perceived; sensibility. [Rare.] “The sensible of…Sĕn'si-ble-ness, n. p. 1202The condition or quality of being sensible; sensibility; capacity of perception; susceptibility. “The sensibleness of the eye.” Sharp. “Sensibleness and sorrow for sin.” Hammond. 2. Intelligence…Sĕn'si-bly, adv. p. 1202In a sensible manner; perceptibly to the senses; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively. What remains past cure, Bear not too sensibly. Milton. 2. With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.Sen-sif'er-oüs, a. p. 1202Producing sense or sensation. [Rare.]Sen-sif'ic, a. p. 1202Producing sensation.Sēns'ism, n. p. 1202The same as SENSUALISM.Sēns'ist, n. p. 1202One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.Sĕn'si-tive, a. p. 1202Having sense or feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, sensitive soul; sensitive faculty. 2. Especially, having quick and acute…Sēn'si-tive-ly, adv. p. 1202In a sensitive manner.Sēn'si-tive-ness, n. p. 1202The state or quality of being sensitive; acute sensibility.Sĕn'si-tĭv'i-ty, n. p. 1202The state or condition of being sensitive;—used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.Sēn'si-tize, v. t. p. 1202(Photog.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the sun's rays; as, sensitized paper; a sensitized plate.Sĕn'si-to-ry, n. p. 1202The same as SENSORY.Sēns'ive, a. p. 1202Having sense or sensibility; sensitive. [Obs.] Sidney.Sēn'sor, a. p. 1202Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.Sen-sō′ri-al, a. p. 1202Pertaining to the sensory or sensorium; as, sensorial faculties; sensorial motions or powers.Sen-sō′ri-ūm or Sēn′so-ry, n. p. 1202(Physiol. & Metaph.) Anciently, the supposed organ, or rather place, in which the sensations given by the several organs are reduced to the unity of consciousness; in modern usage, the whole nervous…Sĕn'so-ry, a. p. 1202Of, or connected with, the sensory, or with sensation; as, sensory nerves.Sēn'sū·al, a. p. 1202Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the senses, or bodily organs of perception; relating to or concerning the body, in distinction from the spirit. Far as creation's ample range extends, The…Sēn'sū-al-ism, n. p. 1202The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality. 2. (Philos.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not…Sēn'sū-al-ist, n. p. 1202One given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures.Sĕn'sū-al-ist'ic, a. p. 1202Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.Sĕn'sū-ăl/i-ty, n. p. 1202The quality of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. Shak.…Sĕn'sū-al-i-zā'tion, n. p. 1202The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.Sēn'sū-al-ize, v. t. p. 1202To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; as, sensualized by pleasure. By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized. T. H. Skinner.Sĕn’sū-al-ly, adv. p. 1202In a sensual manner.Sēn'sū-al-ness, n. p. 1202The state or quality of being sensual; sensuality.