senor 
A gentleman; in address, sir; as a title, Mr.: 
in Spanish use. 
sefiora (se-nyo'ra), . [Sp. (fern, of scilor), a 
lady, madam : see wffor.] A lady ; in address, 
madam; as a title, Mrs. : the feminine of settor: 
in Spanish use. 
senorita (sen-yo-re'ta), w. [Sp., dim. otstKorn : 
see xeilitr.] 1. A young lady ; in address, miss; 
as a title, Miss: in Spanish use. 2. In iclilh., 
a graceful little labroid fish of California, Pseu- 
dojulis or Oxyjulis modest us. It in 6 or 7 inches 
long, prettily marked with indigo-blue, orange, and black 
upon an olive-brown ground, cream-colored below. 
Senousi (se-no'si), . [Algerian: see quot. un- 
der Senousian, n.] A Mohammedan religious 
and political society, especially influential in 
northern Africa. See the quotation. 
The Mussulman confraternity of Senmisi. This sect, 
which is distinguished by its austere and fanatical tenets, 
arose forty-six years ago under an Algerian, and appears 
to have in a greater or less degree permeated the Monam- 
medan world, and acquired vast political importance. It 
flourishes especially in Northern Africa, reaching as far 
south as Timbuctoo. Nature, XXX. 478. 
Senousian (se-no'si-an), a. and n. [< Senouni 
+ -on.] I. a. Of or'pertaining to the Senousi. 
Ready at a moment's notice to convey to the interior the 
persons and property of the Senousian authorities. 
Science, IV. 459. 
H. n. One of the Senousi. 
Senousians, or the Brotherhood of Sidi Mohammed Ben 
All es-Senousi, the founder of the order. Science, IV. 457. 
Senoyst, a. and . [< OF. *Sienois = It. Sie- 
nese, Sienese : see Sienese.] Sienese. 
The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears. 
Sltalc., All's Well, i. i. 1. 
senst, v . t. Same as sense 2 for incense"*. 
sensable (sen'sa-bl), a. [< sense 1 + -able.] In- 
telligible. [Rare.] 
Your second [sort of figures] serues the conceit onely 
and not th' eare, and may be called sensoMe, not sensible, 
nor yet sententious. 
Puttmham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 133. 
sensarf , n. An obsolete form of ceitser. 
sensate (sen'sat), n. [< L. sensatus, endued 
with sense, < sensus, sense: see sense 1 .] Per- 
ceived by the senses. 
sensatet (sen'sat), v. t. [< sensate, a.~\ To have 
perception of, as an object of the senses; ap- 
prehend by the senses or understanding. 
As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of 
the other are by the eye. 
Hooke, Hist. Royal Soc., ill. 2. (Encyc. Diet.) 
sensated, a. Same as sensate. 
sensation (sen-sa'shou), n. [< OF. sensation, 
F. sensation = Pr. sensation = Sp. sensacion = 
Pg. sensag&o = It. sensazione,<. 'M.li.'sensatio(n-), 
< L. sensatus, endued with sense: see sensate.'] 
1. The action, faculty, or immediate mental re- 
sult of receiving a mental impression from any 
affection of the bodily organism ; sensitive ap- 
prehension; corporeal feeling; any feeling; 
also, the elements of feeling or immediate con- 
sciousness and of consciousness of reaction in 
perception ; the subjective element of percep- 
tion. Sensation has to be distinguished from feeling 
on the one hand, and from perception on the other. All 
are abstractions, or objects segregated by the mind from 
their concomitants, but perception is less so and feel- 
ing more so than sensation. Sensation is feeling toge- 
ther with the direct consciousness of that feeling forcing 
itself upon us, so that it involves the essential element of 
the conception of an object ; but sensation is considered 
apart from its union with associated sensations, by which 
a perception is built up. Sensations are either peripheral 
or visceral. Among the latter are to be specially men- 
tioned sensations of operations in the brain. No approach 
to a satisfactory enumeration of the different kinds of sen- 
sations, even of the peripheral kind, has been made. 
Those that make motion and sensation thus really the 
same, they must of necessity acknowledge that no longer 
motion, no longer sensation, . . . and that every motion 
or reaction must be a new sensation, as well as every ceas- 
ing of reaction a ceasing of senmtion. 
Dr. H. Hore, Immortal, of Soul, II. i. 12. 
The perception which actually accompanies and is an- 
nexed to any impression on the body made by an external 
object, being distinct from all other modifications of 
thinking, furnishes the mind with a distinct idea, which 
we call sensation. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xix. 1. 
Sensation, so long as we take the analytic point of view, 
differs from perception only in the extreme simplicity of 
its object or content. . . . From the physiological point 
of view both sensations and perceptions differ from 
thoughts in the fact that nerve-currents coming in from 
the periphery are involved in their production. 
W. James, Prin. of Psychology, xvii. 
Impressions may be divided into two kinds, those of 
sensation and those of reflexion. The first kind arises in 
the soul originally, from unknown causes. 
Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, I. ii. 
The feelings which accompany the exercise of these 
sensitive or corporeal powers, whether cognitive or ap- 
petent, will constitute a distinct class, and to these we 
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may with great propriety give the name of sensation*; 
whereas on the feelings which accompany the energies of 
all our higher powers of mind we may with equal pro- 
priety bestow the name of sentiments. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xlv. 
Unlucky Welsted ! thy unfeeling master, 
The more thou ticklest, gripes his flst the faster. 
While thus each hand promotes the pleasing pain, 
And quick sensations skip from vein to vein. 
Pope, Dunciad, ii. 212. 
Sensations sweet, 
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. 
Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 
She was hardly conscious of any bodily se.nsation except 
a sensation of strength inspired by a mighty emotion. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vii. 5. 
2. A state of interest or of feeling; especially, 
a state of excited interest or feeling. 
The sensation caused by the appearance of that work is 
still remembered by many. Brirugham. 
The actor's dress had caught fire, and the house had a 
sensation not bargained for. 
J. C. Jea/reson, Live it Down, xxii. 
An intellectual voluptuary, a moral dilettante [Pe- 
trarch], the flrst instance of that character, since too com- 
mon, the gentleman in search of a sensation. 
Lowell, Among ray Books, 1st ser., p. 366. 
3. That which produces sensation or excited 
interest or feeling: as, the greatest sensation 
of the day Muscular sensations. See mutcular. 
Perverse temperature-sensations, the production of 
a sensation of neat by a cold body applied to the skin, 
and of cold by a hot body. Sensation novels, novels 
that produce their effect by exciting and often Improbable 
situations, by taking as their groundwork some dreadful 
secret, some atrocious crime, or the like, and painting 
scenes of extreme peril, high-wrought passion, etc. 
sensational (sen-sa'shon-al), a. [< sensation + 
-al.] 1. Of or pertaining to sensation ; relating 
to or implying sensation or perception through 
the senses. 
With sensational pleasures and pains there go, in the 
infant, little else but vague feelings of delight and anger 
and fear. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., t 482. 
This property of Persistence, and also of recurrence in 
Idea, belonging more or less to sensational states, is their 
[i. f., sensations'] intellectual property. 
A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 17. 
2. Having sensation ; serving to convey sensa- 
tion; sentient. Dunglison. 3. Intended, as a 
literary or artistic work, to excite intense emo- 
tion ; appealing to the love of being moved, as 
a chief source of interest. 
The sensational history of thePaston letters, rather than 
the really valuable matter contained in them, has been 
the chief element in the demand for their production. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 56. 
4. Of or pertaining to sensationalism ; adher- 
ing to philosophical sensationalism. 
Are we then obliged to give in our adherence to the 
tennationnl philosophy ? 
Farrar, Origin of Language, p. 148. 
He never forgot that Berkeley was a sensational, while 
he was an intellectual, idealist 
A. J. Batfaur, Mind, IX. 91. 
sensationalism (sen-sa'shon-al-izm), n. [< 
sensational + -ism.] 1. In'philos., the theory 
or doctrine that all our ideas are solely derived 
through our senses or sensations ; sensualism. 
Sensationalism at once necessitates and renders impos- 
sible a materialistic explanation of the universe. 
Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 13. 
2. Sensational writing or language ; the pres- 
entation of matters or details of such a nature 
or in such a manner as to thrill the reader or 
to gratify vulgar curiosity : as, the sensational- 
ism of the press. 
There was an air of sensationalism about its news de- 
partments that was new in that field. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 695. 
sensationalist (sen-sa'shon-al-ist), n. [< sen- 
sational + -ist.] 1. In metdph., a believer in 
or an upholder of the doctrine of sensationalism 
or sensualism: sometimes used adjectively. 
Accordingly we are not surprised to find that Locke was 
claimed as the founder of a sensationalist school, whose 
ultimate conclusions his calm and pious mind would 
have indignantly repudiated. . . . We consider this on 
the whole a less objectionable term than "sensualist" or 
"sensuist"; the latter word is uncouth, and the former, 
from the things which it connotes, is hardly fair. 
Farrar, Origin of Language, p. 150, and note. 
2. A sensational writer or speaker. 
sensationalistic (sen-sa-shon-a-lis'tik), a. [< 
sensationalist + -ic.] Of or pertaining to sen- 
sationalists, or sensationalism in philosophy. 
Kncyc. Brit., XXI. 40. 
sensationally (sen-sa'shon-al-i), adv. In a sen- 
sational manner. 
sensationary (sen-sa'shon-a-ri), a. [< sensa- 
tion + -ary.] Possessing or relating to sensa- 
tion ; sensational. 
sensationism (sen-sa'shon-izm), . Same as 
sensationalism. 
sense 
sensative (sen'sa-tiv), a. [< sensatr 4- -IT.] 
Of or pertaining to sensation; sensatory. 
[Rare.] 
Force vegetiue and sensatiuc in Man 
There is. Ileywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 13. 
sensatorial (sen-sa-to'ri-al), a. [< sensate + 
-nnj + -ill.] Of or pertaining to sensation; 
sensational. [Rare.] 
A brilliantly original line of research, which may pos- 
sibly . . . lead to a restatement of the whole psycho- 
physical theory of sensatorial intensity as developed by 
Weber. The Academy, Aug. 16, 1890, p. 13B. 
sense 1 (sens), n. [Early mod. E. also sence ; 
Icel. sansar, pi., the senses, Sw. saws = Dan. 
sands, sense, < OF. (and F.) sens = Pg. It. senso, 
< L. sensus, feeling, sense, < gentire, pp. sensus, 
feel, perceive : see scent.] 1. The capacity of 
being the subject of sensation and perception ; 
the mode of consciousness by which an object is 
apprehended which acts upon the mind through 
the senses; the capacity of becoming conscious 
of objects as actually now and here ; sense-per- 
ception; mental activity directly concerned in 
sensations. 
Sense thinks thelightning born before the thunder : 
What tells us then they both together are? . . . 
Sense outsides knows, the soul through all things sees. 
Sir J. Dames, Immortal, of Soul, ii. 
We adore virtue, though to the eyes of sense she be in- 
visible. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 14. 
Wherever ther,e is sense or perception, there some idea 
is actually produced, and present in the understanding. 
1.1:1-1,1'. Human Understanding, II. ix. 4. 
These two doctrines of Leibnitz that sense is confused 
thought, and that existence in space and time is a phe- 
nomenon reale have a special importance when viewed 
in relation to the ideas of Kant. 
B. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 91. 
Errors of sense are only special instances where the 
mind makes its synthesis unfortunately as it were, out 
of incomplete data, instantaneously and inevitably inter- 
preting them in accordance with the laws which have 
regulated all its experience. 
(J. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 465. 
2. A special faculty of sensation connected 
with a bodily organ; the mode of sensation 
awakened by the excitation of a peripheral 
nerve. In this signification, man is commonly said to 
have five senses sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch 
a correct enumeration, perhaps, according to organs, but 
each of these organs has several different qualities of sen- 
sation. A sixth sense is often specified as the muscular 
sense (distinguished from touch) ; a seventh is sometimes 
spoken of, meaning the inner sense, the common sense of 
Aristotle, an unknown endowment, or a sexual feeling ; 
and further subdivisions also are made. The seven senses 
are also often spoken of, meaning consciousness In its 
totality. 
Whiles every sence the humour sweet embayd. 
Speiaer, F. Q., I. ix. 13. 
The filly was soon scared out of her seven senses, and 
began to calcitrate it, to wince it, to frisk it. 
Mottfux, tr. of Rabelais, iv. 14. 
In June 'tis good to lie beneath a tree, 
While the blithe season comforts every sense. 
Lmcell, Under the Willows. 
The five senses just enumerated sight, hearing, smell, 
taste, and touch would seem to comprise all our per- 
ceptive faculties, and to leave no further sense to be ex- 
plained. Aristotle, De Anima (tr. by Wallace). 
3. Feeling; immediate consciousness; sensa- 
tion perceived as inward or subjective, or, at 
least, not decidedly as objective; also, vague 
consciousness or feeling. 
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 
Lie in three words health, peace, and competence. 
Pope, Essay on Man, Iv. 79. 
A sense of pleasure, subtle and quiet as a perfume, dif- 
fused itself through the room. C. Bronte, Shirley, xxxv. 
Dim and faint 
May be the sense of pleasure and of pain. 
Bryant, Among the Trees. 
Such expressions as the abysmal vault of heaven, the 
endless expanse of ocean, Ac., summarize many computa- 
tions to the imagination, and give the sense of an enor- 
mous horizon. W. James, Mind, XII. 209, note. 
At the same time he [Manzoni] had that exquisite cour- 
tesy in listening which gave to those who addressed him 
the sense of having spoken well. Encyc. Brit., XV. 515. 
Then a cool naked sense beneath my feet 
Of bud and blossom. 
A. C. Swinburne, Two Dreams. 
4. A power of perceiving relations of a partic- 
ular kind ; a capacity of being affected by cer- 
tain non-sensuous qualities of objects; a special 
kind of discernment ; also, an exertion of such 
a power: as, the religious sense ; the sense of 
duty ; the sense of humor. 
Sense of Right and Wrong [is] as natural to us as natural 
affection itself, and a first principle in our constitution 
and make. 
Shafttsbury, Inquiry, I. iii. 1, quoted in Fowler, p. 70. 
Tempests themselves, high seas and howling winds, 
The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands 
Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel 
As having sense of beauty, do omit 
Their mortal natures. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 71. 
