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Celtica, who occupied nearly the whole extent of the diocese 
of Sens and that of Auxerre, according to the ancient divi¬ 
sions of France. According to Caesar, they were confined 
to Belgica. This author says of them: “ eat civitas in pri- 
mis firma, et magnae apud Gallos auctoritatis.”—Also, a 
people of Italy, in Gallia Cispadana, upon the borders of the 
Adriatic sea. Their arrival in Italy may be fixed in the year 
before the vulgar era 397. They were overpowered in the 
year of Rome 463, by M. Curius Gentalus and P. Cornelius 
Rufinus; and were afterwards driven from the whole 
country which they occupied, from the CEsis to the Rubicon. 
A colony was sent into their country, which assumed the 
name of “ Sena Gallia.” Seven years afterwards they were 
almost entirely exterminated by Dolabella. 
SENONES, a small town in the east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Vosges. It contains 1600 inhabitants, and has 
some woollen manufactures; 33 miles south-west of Strasburg. 
SENON LENIC, a small well-built town of Upper 
Egypt, a few miles to the south of Benisuef. 
SENOSECZ, a small town of Austrian Illyria, in Car- 
niola, in the mountainous district called the Karst; 9 miles 
south-west of Czirknitz. 
SENRA, Senr^ea, or Serra, in Botany, a genus of 
Cavanilles, upon which different authors have bestowed the 
above appellations. We are ignorant of its derivation. See 
Cavan, Diss. 2, 83. It appears to be allied both to Malva 
and Gossypium. 
SENS, a considerable town in the interior of France, 
department of the Yonne, situated on the side of a hill, in a 
pleasant spot, watered by the Yonne and the Vanne. It 
contains a population of 8000, and is the see of an arch¬ 
bishop. Its cathedral is admired both for its exterior and 
interior: it contains the tomb of the Dauphin, son of Louis 
XV., and of Dupradt, chancellor of France. To the college 
belong a museum and library. Sens has manufactures of 
woollens, velvet, stockings, gloves and leather. Its trade 
consists in corn, wine, wood, coal and hemp. Several ec¬ 
clesiastical councils have been held here ; among others that 
of 1140, in which the well-known Abelard was condemned. 
It was taken by an allied force, chiefly Austrian, on 11th 
February, 1814, but evacuated soon after; 34 miles west of 
Troyes, and 84 south-east of Paris. Lat. 48. 11. 55. X. long. 
3. 16. 59. E. 
SENS AON, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, 
situated near a mountain of the same name; 25 miles south 
of Tetuan. 
SE'NSATED, part. adj. Perceived by the senses.—As 
those of the one are sensatcd by the ear, so those of the 
Other are by the eye. Hooke. 
SENSA'TION, s. [sensatio, school Lat.] Perception by 
means of the senses.—Diversity of constitution, or other cir¬ 
cumstances, vary the sensations; and to them of Java pep¬ 
per is cold. Glanville. —This great source of most of the 
ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses, and 
derived by them to the understanding, I call sensation. 
Locke. —The happiest, upon a fair estimate, have stronger 
sensations of pain than pleasure. Rogers. 
SENSBURG, a small town of East Prussia; 63 miles 
south-south-east of Konigsberg. Population 1400. 
SENSE, s. [sens, Fr„ sensus , Lat.] Faculty or power 
by which external objects are perceived; the sight; touch; 
hearing; smell; taste. 
This power is sense, which from abroad doth bring 
The colour, taste, and touch, and scent, and sound. 
The quantity and shape of every thing 
Within earth’s centre, or heav’n’s circle found: 
And though things sensible be numberless, 
But only five the sense's organs be; 
And in those five, all things their forms express. 
Which we can touch, taste, feel, or hear or see. Davies. 
Then is the soul a nature, which contains 
The power of sense within a greater power, 
Which doth employ and use the sense's pains; 
But sits and rules within her private bower. Davies. 
SEN 
Both contain 
Within them every lower faculty 
Of setise, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste. 
Milton. 
Of the five senses, two are usually and most properly 
called the senses of learning, as being most capable of 
receiving communication of thought and notions by selected 
signs; and these are hearing and seeing. Holder .—Percep¬ 
tion by the senses; sensation. 
If we had nought but sense, then only they 
Should have sound minds which have their senses sound ; 
But wisdom grows when senses do decay, 
And folly most in quickest sense is found. Davies. 
Sensibility ; quickness or keenness of perception. 
He should have liv’d. 
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense, 
Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge. Shakspeare. 
Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natu¬ 
ral reason. 
There’s something previous ev’n to taste; ’tis sense. 
Good sense, which only is the gift of heaven. 
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Pope. 
Reason; reasonable meaning.—Opinion; notion ; judg¬ 
ment. " " 
I speak my private but impartial sense 
With freedom, and, I hope, without offence. Roscommon. 
Consciousness; conviction.—In the due sense of my want 
of learning, I only make a confession of my own faith. 
Dry den —Moral perception.—Some are so hardened in 
wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. 
L'Estrange. —Meaning; import. 
My hearty friends, 
You take me in too dolorous a sense. Shakspeare. 
SE'NSED, part. Perceived by the senses. A word not 
in use .—Let the sciolist tell me, why things must needs be 
so as his individual senses represent them : is he sure that 
objects are not otherwise sensed by others, than they are by 
him ? And why must his sense be the infallible criterion ? 
It may be, what is white to us, is black to negroes. 
Glanville. 
SE'NSEFUL, adj. Reasonable; judicious. Not used. 
The lady, hearkning to his sensefull speech. 
Found nothing that he said unmeet nor geason. Spenser. 
SE'NSELESS, adj. Wanting sense; wanting life; void 
of all life or perception. 
The charm and venom, which' they drunk. 
Their blood with secret filth infected hath, 
Being diffused through the senseless trunk. 
That througli the great contagion direful deadly stunk. 
Spenser. 
Unfeeling; wanting sympathy.—The senseless grave 
feels not your pious sorrows, Rowe. —Unreasonable; stu¬ 
pid ; doltish; blockish. 
She saw her favour was misplac’d; 
The fellows had a wretched taste: 
She needs must tell them to their face. 
They were a senseless stupid race. Swift. 
Other creatures, as well as monkeys, little wiser than they, 
destroy their young by senseless fondness, and too much 
embracing. Locke. —Wanting sensibility; wanting quick¬ 
ness or keenness of perception.' Not in use .—To draw 
Mars like a young Hippolytus, with an effeminate coun¬ 
tenance, or that hot-spurred Harpalice in Virgil, proceeded 
from a senseless and overcold judgment Peacham. _ 
Wanting knowledge; unconscious; with of. 
The wretch is drench’d too deep ; 
His soul is stupid, and his heart asleep, 
Fatten’d in vice : so callous and so gross. 
He sins and sees not, senseless o/’his loss. Dry den. 
SENSELESSLY, 
