sensualist 
A person given to the indulgence of the ap- 
petites or senses ; one who places his chief hap- 
piness in carnal pleasures. 
There must be some meanness and blemish in the beauty 
which tlic wiitntdlist no sooner beholds than he covets. 
Bulii'er, What will he Do with it? vii. 23. 
The short method that Plato and others have proposed 
for deciding the issue between the Philosopher and tin- 
Sensualist is palpably fallacious. 
H. Sidgteick, Methods of Ethics, p. 127. 
2. One who holds the sensual theory in philoso- 
phy; a sensationalist. Also sensuist. 
sensualistic (sen'su-a-lis'tik), a. [< sensualist 
+ -ic.] 1. Upholding the doctrine of sensual- 
ism. 2. Sensual. 
sensuality (seii-su-al'i-ti), n. [< OF. sensualite, 
F. sensualite = Pr. sensualitat = Sp. sensualidad 
= Pg. sensualidade = It. sensuality, < LL. sensu- 
alita(t-)s, capacity for sensation, sensibility, 
ML. also sensuality, < sensualis, endowed with 
feeling or sense : see sensual.'] If. Sensual or 
carnal nature or promptings ; carnality ; world- 
liness. 
A great number of people in divers parts of this realm, 
following their own sensuality, and living without know- 
ledge and due fear of God, do wilfully and schismatic-ally 
abstain and refuse to come to their own parish churches. 
Act of Uniformity (1661). (Trench.) 
2. Unrestrained gratification of the bodily ap- 
petites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual 
pleasures. 
Those pamper'd animals 
That rage in savage sensuality. 
Shale., Much Ado, iv. 1. 62. 
If some pagan nations deified sensuality, this was simply 
because the deification of the forces of nature, of which 
the prolific energy is one of the most conspicuous, is among 
the earliest forms of religion, and long precedes the iden- 
tification of the Deity with a moral ideal. 
Lecty, Europ. Morals, 1. 112. 
sensualization (sen'su-al-i-za'shon), n. [< 
sensualize + -ation.] The act of sensualizing, 
or the state of being sensualized. Also spelled 
sensualisation. Imp. Diet. 
sensualize (sen'su-al-Iz), v. ; pret. and pp. sen- 
sualized, ppr. sensualizing. [< sensual + -ize.~\ 
1. trans. To make sensual; debase by carnal 
gratifications. 
Sensualized by pleasure, like those who were changed 
into brutes by Circe. Pope. 
Il.t intrans. To indulge the appetites. 
First they visit the tavern, then the ordinary, then the 
theatre, and end in the stews ; from wine to riot, from 
that to plays, from them to harlots. . . . Here is a day 
spent in an excellent method. If they were beasts, they 
could not better senfualise. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 310. 
Also spelled sensualize. 
sensually (sen'su-al-i), adv. In a sensual man- 
ner. 
sensualness (sen'su-al-nes), n. Sensual char- 
acter; sensuality. Bailey, 1727. 
sensuism (sen'su-izm), n. [< L. sensus, sense, 
+ -ism.'] Same as sensualism, 2. 
sensuist (sen'su-ist), re. [< L. sensus, sense, 
+ -ist.~\ Same as sensualist, 2. 
sensuosity (sen-gu-os'i-ti), n. [< sensuous + 
-(<//.] Sensuous character or quality. Imp. 
Diet. 
sensuous (sen'su-us), a. [< L. sensus, sense, 
+ -oils.] 1. Of, pertaining to, derived from, 
or ministering to the senses; connected with 
sensible objects: as, sensuous pleasures. 
To which [logic) poetry would be made subsequent, or, 
indeed, rather precedent, as being less subtile and fine, 
but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. 
Milton, Education. 
To express in one word all that appertains to the per- 
ception, considered as passive and merely recipient, 1 have 
adopted from our elder classics the word senxumw. 
Coleridge. 
The agreeable and disagreeable feelings which come 
through sensations of smell, taste, and touch are for the 
most part sensuous rather than strictly [esthetic. 
O. T. Ladd, Phyaiol. Psychology, p. 521. 
2. Readily affected through the senses ; alive to 
the pleasure to be received through the senses. 
Too soft and sensuous by nature to be exhilarated by the 
conflict of modern opinions, he [Keats] found at once food 
for his love of beauty and an opiate for his despondency 
in the remote tales of Greek mythology. Quarterly Rev. 
Sensuous cognition, cognition through the senses. 
Sensuous indistinctness. See indistinctness, 2. =Syn. 
1. Carnal, etc. See sensual. 
sensuously (sen'su-us-li), adv. In a sensuous 
manner. Coleridge. 
sensuousness (sen'su-us-nes), n. Sensuous 
character or disposition. 
The senstummess of all perception, and its inability to 
supply us with the conception of an object. 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 323. 
sent 1 !, v. and K. An old, and historically more 
correct, spelling of scent. 
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sent-t, n. [ME. sent; an aphetic form of as- 
xcnt.~] Assent. 
Alle the lordes of that loud lelli at o sent 
Sent William to seie so as was bi-falle. 
William o/ Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5253. 
sent 3 (sent). Preterit and past participle of wml. 
8ent 4 t. A Middle English contracted form of 
sendetli, third person singular present indica- 
tive of send. 
8ent 5 t, . An obsolete spelling of saint 1 . 
sentence (sen'tens), . [< ME. sentence, sen- 
ti'iis, scentence, (. OF. (and F.) sentence = Pr. 
Ki-iili-in-iii, xcntenxa = Sp. seiiteneia = Pg. sentenya 
= It. sentenza, sentenzia, < L. sententia, way of 
thinking, opinion, sentiment, for 'sentieutid, < 
sentien(t-)s, ppr. of sentire, feel, think : see sen- 
tient, sense!, scent.} 1. Way of thinking; opin- 
ion ; sentiment ; judgment ; decision. 
When thow me hast geven an audience, 
Therefter maistow telle alle thi sentence. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 546. 
I have no great cause to look for other than the selfsame 
portion and lot which your manner hath been hitherto 
to lay on them that concur not in opinion and sentence 
with you. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., L 1. 
My sentence is that we trouble not them which from 
among the Gentiles are turned to God. Acts xv. 19. 
My sentence is for open war. Milton, P. L., ii. 51. 
2. A saying; a maxim; an axiom. 
Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw 
Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 244. 
Thou speakeat sentences, old Bias. 
IS. Jonton, Poetaster, 1. 1. 
3. A verdict, judgment, decision, or decree ; 
specifically, in late, a definitive judgment pro- 
nounced by a court or judge upon a criminal ; 
a judicial decision publicly and officially de- 
clared in a criminal prosecution, in technical 
language sentence is used only for the declaration of judg- 
ment against one convicted of a crime or in maritime 
causes. In civil cases the decision of a court is called a 
judgment or a decree. In criminal cases sentence is a judg- 
ment pronounced ; doom. 
Than the axchebisshop yaf the axenlrnce full dolerouse, 
and cursed of god and with all his power alle tho that in 
the londe dide eny forf et, or were a-gein the kynge Arthur. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 116. 
But it is to be observ'd that in Egypt many causes are 
carried before leading men, who absolutely decide, even 
against the sentence of the magistrate. 
Pococke, Description of the East, 1. 171. 
4. In gram., a form of words having grammati- 
cal completeness ; a number of words consti- 
tuting a whole, as the expression of a state- 
ment, inquiry, or command; a combination of 
subject and predicate. A sentence is either assertive, 
as he is good; or interrogative, as is he good? or impera- 
tive, as be good I Sentences are also classed as simple, 
compound, or complex: simple, if divisible into a single 
subject and a single predicate; compound, if containing 
more than one subject or predicate or both ; and complex, 
if including a subordinate sentence or clause : as, he who 
is good is happy; I like what you like; he goes when I 
come. Sentences are further classed as Independent and 
as dependent or subordinate (the latter being more often 
called a clause than a sentence) ; a dependent sentence is 
one which enters with the value of a single part of speech 
either noun or adjective or adverb into the structure 
of another sentence. 
5f. Sense ; meaning. 
I am nat textuel ; 
I take but the sentent, trusteth wel. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Parson's Tale, 1. 58. 
Go, litel bille, bareyn of eloquence, 
Pray yonge children that the shal see or reede, 
Thoughe thow be compendious of sentence, 
Of thi clauses for to taken heede. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 32. 
Now to the discours it selfe, voluble anough, and full 
of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious 
rather then solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, iv. 
6f. Substance; matter; contents. 
Tales of best sentence and most solas 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 798. 
7. In music, a complete idea, usually consist- 
ing of two or four phrases. The term is used some- 
what variously as to length, but it always applies to a di- 
vision that is complete and satisfactory in itself. Book 
of the Sentences, one of the four Books of Sentences, 
or dicta of the church fathers, compiled by Peter Lombard 
(" Master of the Sentences ") in the twelfth century, or 
the whole collection of four books. This formed the 
great text-book of theology in the middle ages ; and most 
of the treatises on scholasticism during that period are in 
the form of questions following the divisions of this work. 
Cumulative sentence. See cumulative. Loose sen- 
tence, a sentence so constructed as to be grammatically 
complete at one or more pointa before its end. Master 
Of the Sentences. See masterl . and Boole of the Sentences 
(above). Sentence arbitrate, in French law, award. 
To serve a sentence. See wroei. 
sentence (sen'tens), r. t. ; pret. and pp. sen- 
tenced, ppr. sentencing. [< OF. (and F.) senten- 
<>(> = Pr. Sp. Pg. sentenciar = It. senteniiare, 
< ML. sententiare, pronounce judgment or sen- 
sententious 
tence upon, judge, decide, assent, < 'L.senti'ntin, 
opinion, judgment, sentence: see sentence, .] 
1. To pass or pronounce sentence or judgment 
on ; condemn ; doom to punishment. 
Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. 
Dryden, Aurengzebe, iii. 1. 
Dredge and his two collier companions were sentenced to 
a year's imprisonment with hard labor, and the more en- 
lightened prisoner, who stole the Debarrys' plate, to trans- 
portation for life. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xlvi. 
Thirty-six children, between the ages of nine and six- 
teen, were smtenced to be scourged with rods on the palms 
of their hands once a week for a year. 
Lowell, Among my Hooks, 1st ser., p. 105. 
2f. To pronounce as judgment; express as a 
decision or determination ; decree. 
Let them . . . 
Enforce the present execution 
Of what we chance to sentence. 
Shak., Cor., iii. 3. 22. 
One example of iustice is admirable, which he nentenced 
on the (iouernour of Casbin, conuict of many extortions, 
briberies, and other crimes. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 387. 
3f. To express in a short, energetic, senten- 
tious manner. 
Let me hear one wise man sentence it, rather than twenty 
fools, garrulous in their lengthened tattle. 
Feltham, Resolves, i. 93. 
sentencer (sen'ten-ser), n. [< OF. sentencier, 
sentencliier, < ML. sententiarius, one who passes 
sentence, < L. sententia, sentence : see sentence.] 
One who pronounces sentence ; a judge. 
He who can make the best and most dirt erences of things 
by reasonable and wittie distinction is to be the fittest 
iudge or sentencer of [decency]. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 220. 
Haruth and Maruth went, 
The chosen sentrncers; they fairly heard 
The appeals of men to their tribunal brought, 
And rightfully decided. Southey, Thalaba, iv. 9. 
sentential (sen-ten'shal), a. [< L. sententialis, 
in the form of a sentence, < sententia, a sen- 
tence: see sentence.] If. Authoritatively bind- 
ing or decisive. 
There is no doubt but our pardon, or constituted Justi- 
fication In covenant title, is a virtual, sentential justifica- 
tion. Baxter, Life of Faith, ill. 8. 
2. Of or pertaining to a sentence, or series of 
words having grammatical completeness: as, 
a sentential pause ; sentential analysis. 
sententially (sen-ten'shal-i), adv. I. By way 
of sentence; judicially; decisively. 
We sententially and definitively by this present writing 
judge, declare, and condemn the said Sir John Oldcastle, 
Knight, and Lord Cobham, for a most pernicious and de- 
testable heretic. Bp. Bale, Select Works, p. 42. 
2. In or by sentences. 
sententiarian (sen-ten-shi-a'ri-an), n. [< sen- 
tentiary + -an.] A commentator upon Peter 
Lombard (twelfth century), who brought all 
the doctrines of faith into a philosophical sys- 
tem in his four Books of Sentences, or opinions 
of the fathers. 
sententiary (sen-ten'shi-a-ri), n. ; pi. senten- 
tiarics (-riz). [< ML. sentetitiarius, one who 
passes sentence, one who writes sentences, 
also one who lectured upon the Liber Sententi- 
arum, or Book of Sentences, of Peter Lombard, 
< L. sententia, a sentence, precept: see sentence.} 
Same as sententiarian Sententiary bachelors. 
See bachelor, 2. 
sententiosityt (sen-ten-shi-os'i-ti), n. [< sen- 
tentious + -ity.~] Sententiousness. 
Vulgar precepts in morality, carrying with them nothing 
above the line, or beyond the extemporary sententiusityot 
common conceits with us. Sir T. Brotme, Vulg. Err., i. 6. 
sententious (sen-ten'shus), a. [< ME. sentcn- 
cyowxe, < OF. scntentieux, sentencieitx, F. senten- 
cieux = Sp. Pg. sentencioso = It. sentenzio&o, < 
L. sententiosus, full of meaning, pithy, senten- 
tious, < sententia, opinion, precept, sentence : 
see sentence.] 1. Full of pithy sentences or 
sayings ; pithy ; terse: as, & sententious style or 
discourse; sententious truth. 
Your third sort serues as well th* eare as the conceit, 
and may be called sententious figures, because not only 
they properly apperteine to full sentences for bewtifying 
them with a currant & pleasant numerositie, but also 
giuing them efficacie. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 133. 
2. Given to the use of pithy or axiomatic say- 
ings or sentences. 
How he apes his sire ! 
Ambitiously sententious! Addisun, f'ato, i. 2. 
He was too sententious a person to waste words on mere 
salutation. Scott, Kenil worth , xii. 
3t. Same as sentential, 2. 
The making of figures being tedious, and requiring much 
room, put men first upon contracting them : as by the 
most ancient Egyptian monuments it appears they did : 
next, instead of sententitjus marks, to think of verbal, such 
as the Chinese still retain. N. Qrew, Cosmologia Sacra. 
= Syn. 1. Laconic, pointed, compact 
