sensualize

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Etymology

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From sensual +‎ -ize.

Verb

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sensualize (third-person singular simple present sensualizes, present participle sensualizing, simple past and past participle sensualized)

  1. (transitive) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.
    • 1839, Thomas Harvey Skinner, Religion of the Bible: In Select Discourses:
      By that one neglect [of prayer], thy thoughts are sensualized.
    • 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. [], London: [] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
      Not to suffer oneself to be sensualized by pleasures
    • 1993, Scott C. Ratzan, Aids: Effective Health Communication For The 90s:
      normalizing and sensualizing condom use may be of great benefit

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Verb

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sensualize

  1. inflection of sensualizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative