sense 
And this arrangement into schools, and the definitenesa 
of the conclusions reached in each, are on the increase, 
so that here, it would seem, are actually two new senses, 
the scientific and the artistic, which the mind is now in 
the process of forming for itself. 
W. K. Clifford, Conditions of Mental Development. 
And full of cowardice and guilty shame, 
I grant in her some sense of shame, she flies. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
These investigations show not only that the skin is sen- 
sitive, but that one is able with great precision to dis- 
tinguish the part touched. This latter power is usually 
called the sense of locality, and it is influenced by various 
conditions. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 480. 
From a sense of duty the Phoenicians burned their chil- 
dren alive. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 202. 
5. Mind generally ; consciousness; especially, 
understanding; cognitive power. 
And cruell sword out of his fingers slacke 
Fell downe to ground, as if the steele had fience. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. vl. 21. 
Are you a man? have you a soul or sense? 
Shak., Othello, ill. 3. 374. 
And for th' Impression God prepar'd their Sense; 
They saw, believ'd all this, and parted thence. 
Cowley, Davideis, i. 
6. Sound or clear mind, (a) Ordinary, normal, or 
clear mental action : especially in the plural, with a col- 
lective force. 
When his lands were spent, 
Troubled in his sences, 
Then he did repent 
Of his late lewd life. 
Constance of Cleveland (Child's Ballads, IV. 230). 
Their Battle-axes was the next; whose piercing bils 
made sometime the one, sometime the other to have scarce 
sense to keepe their saddles. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, 1. 17. 
He [George Fox] had the comfort of a short illness, and 
the blessing of a clear sense to the last. 
Perm, Rise and Progress of Quakers, v. 
The patients are commonly brought to their semes in 
three or four days, or a week, and rarely continue longer. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 103. 
(6) Good Judgment approach ing sagacity; sound practical 
intelligence. 
The latter is most cried up ; but he is more reserved, 
seems sly and to have sense. Walpole, Letters, II. 362. 
"Nay, madam," said I, "I am judge already, and tell 
yon that you are perfectly in the wrong of it ; for, if it was 
a matter of importance, I know he has better sense than 
you." Steele, Tatler, No. 85. 
(c) Acuteness of perception or apprehension; discern- 
ment. 
This Basilius, having the quick sence of a lover, took, as 
though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
7. Discriminative perception; appreciation; a 
state of mind the result of a mental judgment 
or valuation. 
Abundance of imaginary great men are put in straw to 
bring them to a right sense of themselves. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 125. 
Beware of too sublime a sense 
Of your own worth and consequence. 
Cowper, The Retired Cat. 
She dusted a chair which needed no dusting, and placed 
it for Sylvia, sitting down herself on a three-legged stool 
to mark her seme of the difference in their conditions. 
Mrs. Gaskelt, Sylvia's Lovers, xliii. 
8. Meaning; import; signification; the concep- 
tion that a word or sign is intended to convey. 
Whereof the allegory and hid sense 
Is that a well erected confidence 
Can fright their pride. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, Ind. 
We cannot determine in what exact sense our bodies on 
the resurrection will be the same as they are at present. 
J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 277. 
9. The intention, thought, feeling, or meaning 
of a body of persons, as an assembly; judg- 
ment, opinion, determination, or will in refer- 
ence to a debated question. 
It was the universal and unanimous sense of Friends 
" That joining in marriage is the work of the Lord only, 
and not of priest or magistrate. " 
Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. 
The sense of the House was so strongly manifested that, 
after a closing speech of great keenness from Halifax, the 
courtiers did not venture to divide. 
Macaulay, Hist Eng., vi. 
10. That which is wise, judicious, sound, sen- 
sible, or intelligent, and accords with sound 
reason : as, to talk sense. 
As you have put the words together, they are neither 
Latin nor Sense. Milton, Ans. to Salmasius. 
When was there ever better and more weighty sense 
spoken by any than by the Apostles after the day of Pen- 
tecost? StiUinfffleet, Sermons, I. ix. 
I no more saw sense in what she said 
Than a lamb does in people clipping wool ; 
Only lay down and let myself be clipped. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 19. 
Chemical sense, the sense of taste or of smell, as oper- 
ating by means of the chemical action of substances on 
the organ. 
5493 
In the case of the so-called chemical senses, taste and 
smell, we have as yet no method of reckoning the degree 
of the physical force which constitutes the stimulus. 
J. Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 47. 
Collective, common, divided sense. See the adjec- 
tives. Composite sense, that sense of a modal proposi- 
tion in which the mode is considered as predicated of the 
indicative proposition: opposed to divisive sense : thus, that 
it is possible for that which is hot to be cold is true in a di- 
visive sense, but not in a composite sense. Divisive sense. 
See composite sense, above. Esthetic sense. See esthetic. 
Exterior sense, one of the senses by which the outer 
world is perceived. Fixed sense, one of the five more 
definite senses. Good sense, sound judgment. Illative 
sense. See illative. In all senset, in every respect. 
You should in all sense be much bound to him. 
Shak., M. of V., v. 1. 136. 
Inner sense. Same as internal sense. in one's senses, 
in one's right mind ; in the enjoyment of a sound mind ; 
of sound mind. In sense Oft, in view of ; impressed with. 
In sense of his [Mr. Thompson's] sad condition, [the el- 
ders] offered up many prayers to God for him, and, in 
God's good time, they received a gracious answer. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 324. 
Interior sense, self -consciousness ; the powerof perceiv- 
ing what is in our own minds ; also, the noetic reason ; 
the source of first truths. Internal sense. See inter- 
nal. Magnetic, moral, muscular, mystical sense. 
See the adjectives. Out of one's senses, of unsound 
mind, or temporarily deprived of a sound use of one's 
judgment. 
Puff. You observed how she mangled the metre ? 
Dangle. Yes egad, it was the first thing made me sus- 
pect she was out of her senses. Sheridan, The Critic, iii. 1. 
Pickwickian sense. See Pickwickian. - Proper sense, 
the original or exact meaning of a word or phrase, as dis- 
tinguished from later or looser uses. Reflex sense. See 
reflex. Sense of effort. See effort. Special sense, 
one of the five bodily senses. Spiritual sense of the 
Word. Same as internal sense of the Word (which see, un- 
der internal). Strict sense, the narrow sense of a word 
or phrase, which it takes as a well-recognized and estab- 
lished term, as of philosophy, or exact science, as dis- 
tinguished from wider and looser senses. To abound 
in or with one's own senset. See abound. To be 
frightened out of one's (seven) senses, to be so 
frightened as to lose one's understanding for the time 
being. Vague sense, the less specialized and less objec- 
tive of the bodily senses, as the sense of heat, the sense 
of cold, various visceral sensations, etc. Vital sense. 
See vital. 
sense 1 (sens), v. t. ; pret. and pp. sensed, ppr. 
sensing. [= Dan. sandse, perceive, = Sw. saiisa 
(refl.), recover oneself; from the noun.] 1. To 
perceive by the senses. 
Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by 
others then they are by him? 
Olanmlle, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xxii. 
2f. To give the sense of ; expound. 
'Twas writ not to be understood, but read ; 
He that expounds it must come from the dead ; 
Get undertake to sense it true, 
For he can tell more than himself e'er knew. 
Cartwright's Poems (1651). (Nares.) 
3. To perceive ; comprehend ; understand ; 
realize; take into the mind. [Prov. or colloq., 
Brig, and U. S.] 
He button-holed everybody, and offended nobody; found 
out the designs of every clique, the doings of every secret 
caucus, got at the plans of the leaders, the temper of the 
crowd, sensed the whole situation. 
0. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, 1. 101. 
sense 2 t, . and v. [< ME. sensen, sencen, by 
apheresis from encensen, incense : see incewse 2 .] 
Same as incense 2 . 
Whan thei comen there, thei taken Ensense and other 
aromatyk thinges of noble Smelle, and sensen the Ydole, 
as we wolde don here Goddes precyouse Body. 
Mandemlle, Travels, p. 174. 
An image of Owr Lady with ijawngellis sensyng, gilthe. 
Paston Letters, III. 433. 
sense-body (sens'bod"i), n. One of the various 
peripheral sense-organs or marginal bodies of 
the disk, bell, or umbrella of acalephs, supposed 
to have a visual or an auditory function, as a 
lithocyst, an ocellicyst, or a tentaculicyst. See 
cut under lithocyst. 
There are eight sense-bodies arranged at regular inter- 
vals around the margin of the umbrella, alternately with 
which arise the tentacles. Amer. Naturalist, XXIII. 692. 
sense-capsule (sens'kap"sul), . A hollow or- 
gan of a special sense ; a special structure or 
organ exclusively devoted to the reception of a 
particular kind of impression, or sensory per- 
ception, from without, as the nose, eye, and 
ear; in the simplest form, a receptive cham- 
ber connected by a nerve-commissure with a 
nerve-center. In man three sense-capsules are distin- 
guished, of the nose, eye, and ear respectively. The ex- 
cavation of the ethmoid bone is the first ; the eyeball is 
the second ; and the petrosal part of the temporal bone is 
the third ; the last is also called otic capsule. Many analo- 
gous sense-organs of invertebrates are commonly called 
sense-capsules. 
sense-cavity (sens'kav"i-ti), n. Same as sense- 
rniixttlc. 
sense-cell (sens'sel), n. Any cell of an organ 
of special sense; specifically, one of the cells 
entering into the formation of tho nerve-hil- 
sense-rhythm 
locks or neuromasts of the lower vertebrates 
(batrachians and fishes). See nriirtHtt.*t. 
The sense-cells found in the skin : i. e., differentiated 
Ectoderm cells. Claus, Zoology (trans.), p. 45. 
sense-center (sens'sen"ter), n. A center of 
sensation ; a ganglion of gray nerve-tissue, or 
a part of the cortex of the brain, having im- 
mediate relations with some special sensation. 
sensed (senst), p. a. Considered or chosen as 
to sense or meaning conveyed or to be con- 
veyed. [Rare.] 
Words well sens'd, best suting subject grave. 
Marston, Sophonisba, Epil. 
sense-element (sens'eFe-ment), n. An exter- 
nal sensation regarded as an element of a per- 
ception. 
A percept is a complex psychical product formed by a 
coalescence of sense-dements. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psycho!., p. 330. 
sense-epithelium (sens'ep-i-the"li-um), n. A 
sensory or specially sensitive tract of ectoderm, 
epidenn, or cuticle which functions as an organ 
of sense, as in hydrozoans. 
sense-filament (sens'fil'a-ment), n. A filament 
having the function of an organ of sense : as, 
the peculiar sense-filaments of the Pauropoda. 
A. S. Packard. 
sensefult (sens'ful), .. [< sense* + -fill.] 1. 
Perceptive. 
Prometheus, who celestial fire 
Did steal from heaven, {herewith to inspire 
Our earthly bodies with a senseful mind. 
Marston, Satires, v. 19. 
2. Full of sense; hence, reasonable ; judicious; 
sensible ; appropriate. 
The Ladie, hearkning to his sensefull speach, 
Found nothing that he said unmeet nor geason. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. iv. 37. 
And gaue thee power (as Master) to impose 
Fit sense-full Names vnto the Hoast that rowes 
In watery Regions ; and the wandring Heards 
Of Forrest people ; and the painted Birds. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. 
sense-impression (sens'im-presh"pn), n. A 
sensation due to the excitation of a peripheral 
organ of sense. 
The higher and more revivable feelings are connected 
with well-discriminated sense-impressions and percepts, 
whereas the lower feelings are the accompaniments of 
vague undiscriminated mental states. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 487. 
senseless (sens'les), a. [Formerly also sence- 
less (= Dan. sandseslos = Sw. sanslos) ; < sense* 
+ -less.'] 1. Destitute of sense; having no 
power of sensation or perception ; incapable of 
sensation or feeling; insensible. 
Their lady lying on the sencelesse grownd. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. I. 63. 
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. 
Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 380. 
2. Inappreciative ; lacking in appreciation ; 
without perception. 
His wits are dull, 
And sencelesse of this wrong. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 66. 
I would thank you too, father ; but your cruelty 
Hath almost made me senseless of my duty. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, i. 1. 
O race of Capernaitans, senslesse of divine doctrine, and 
capable onely of loaves and belly-cheere. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
3. Lacking understanding; acting without 
sense or judgment ; foolish; stupid. 
Like senseless Chymists their own Wealth destroy, 
Imaginary Gold t' enjoy. Cowley, Reason, st. 2. 
They were a stupid senseless race. 
Su-ift, Cadenus and Vanessa. 
4. Without meaning, or contrary to reason or 
sound judgment; ill-judged; unwise; foolish; 
nonsensical. 
Sencelesse speach, and doted ignorance. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 34. 
We should then have had no memory of those times 
but what your Josippus would afford us, out of whom you 
transcribe a few senseless and useless Apothegms of the 
Pharisees. Milton, Answer to Salmasius. 
senselessly (sens'les-li), adv. In a senseless 
manner; stupidly; unreasonably: as, a man 
senselessly arrogant. 
senselessness (sens'les-nes), n. Thecharacter 
or condition of being senseless, in any sense. 
sense-organ (sens'6r / 'gan), n. Any organ of 
sense, as the eye, ear, or nose. 
sense-perception (sens'per-sep ;f shgn), . Per- 
ception by means of the senses; also, a per- 
ception of an object of sense. 
sensert, An obsolete spelling of center. 
sense-rhythm (sens'riTHm), . An arrange- 
ment of words characteristic of Hebrew poetry, 
in which the rhythm consists not in a rise and 
