sensely

English

Etymology

From sense +‎ -ly.

Adjective

sensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

1. Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.
   • 1797, Joseph Addison, Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 5:

     That is the universal tenet. But is God really hid? It is the blind or stupid eye that first pronounced this sensely word.

   • 1868, Robert Buchanan, Gaston Phoebus. Edburga. Legendary and other poems - Page 305:

     […] February's wind, Scantly distinguished from the withered bent;— And since when first the perfect brain began To read a meaning in the shows of sense Beyond the sensely show, I looked on thee, A supple sapling, slim and straight and tall, […]

   • 1871, The London Quarterly and Holborn Review - Volume 35 - Page 476:

     […] a double I, a spiritual and a bodily. The spiritual I moves and hovers over the animal. The two are at war in a man ; and only by the mortification and death of every sensual or sensely desire can man attain to the ceasing of that connection […]

   • 1896, Thomas Lake Harris, In Dawnrise: A Song of Songs:

     Know of new woman: she shall evolute, God-born, as Issa-Lily in me now: Her sensely raiment trail in Hymen's spice; Her bosom lift twain towers of paradise.

   • 1900, Kate A. Benton, Geber - Page 283:

     That garden where the sunlight's vibrant glow With radiant airs in raptured music blend Of harmony so heavenly fine and pure, So deeply distant from the gross demand Of sensely tones that thrall our dullard ear, And make the voice of heaven itself obscure, […]

   • 1903, Thomas Lake Harris, The Triumph of Life ... - Page 138:

     […] the sultry sea Of sensely instincts grieved it; […]

   • 1905, Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Samuel - Page 99:

     […] without penitent approach to Him, and without free appropriation of His offered grace, and that it was, in its essence and working, connected with the sensely and natural.

   • 2001, Paul Arnett, William Arnett, Souls Grown Deep: Once that river starts to flow - Page 179:

     I do what I do in sensely ways and not crazy ways.

Adverb

sensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

1. In a sensely manner; sensorily; sensibly
   • 1970, The Spring Anthology:

     Voice is in soundlessness contained; will too reposed to strike an active note: the floating mote more sensely seems than does the dormant nerve — no force, no verve; the body heaveless, prone.

   • 2008, Elise Shedd, Elysium Dimension: God's Heavenly Realms:

     A final resting place Designed for heavenly dwelling Genesis of Earthlings Experiences with designated Spirits blessed with flesh To sensely feel God's Best Before one says Humans were earth once One cannot carbonly Determine when humans Arrived and what dwelled […]

   • 2011, Eddie Horton, Just Compass - Page 16:

     My dormantly resting multitasking skills had never been so sensely bombarded, as absolute chaos kissed the lips of mayhem that thwarted our every turn.

Anagrams

• Ensleys, Lyneses