sensate

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (able to sense), from sensus (sense).

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Adjective

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sensate (comparative more sensate, superlative most sensate)

  1. Perceived by one or more of the senses.
  2. Having the ability to sense things physically.
  3. Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
    • 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:
      To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do

Verb

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sensate (third-person singular simple present sensates, present participle sensating, simple past and past participle sensated)

  1. (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.
    to sensate light, or an odour
    • R. Hooke
      As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.

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Italian

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Adjective

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sensate

  1. feminine plural of sensato

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From sēnsātus (sensible, intelligent) +‎ .

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Adverb

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sensātē (not comparable)

  1. intelligently, sensibly

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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sēnsāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of sēnsātus

References

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  • sensate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

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Verb

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sensate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of sensar combined with te