SEMI-DIATESSARON — SENSITIVELY NWAD SEMI-DIATESSARON.1

SEMI-DIATESSARON, n. [semi and diatessaron.] In music, an imperfect or defective fourth. NWAD SEMI-DIATESSARON.1

SEMI-DITONE, n. [semi and It. ditono.] In music, a lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemi-ditone. NWAD SEMI-DITONE.1

SEMI-DOUBLE, n. [semi and double.] In the Romish breviary, an office celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones, but with more than the single ones. NWAD SEMI-DOUBLE.1

SEMIFLORET, n. [semi and floret.] A half floret, which is tubulous at the beginning, like a floret, and afterwards expanded in the form of a tongue. NWAD SEMIFLORET.1

SEMIFLOSCULOUS, a. [semi and L. flosculous, a little flower. Semifloscular is also used, but is less analogical.] Composed of semiflorets; ligulate; as a semiflosculous flower. NWAD SEMIFLOSCULOUS.1

SEMI-FLUID, a. [semi and fluid.] Imperfectly fluid. NWAD SEMI-FLUID.1

SEMI-FORMED, a. [semi and formed.] Half formed; imperfectly formed; as semi-formed crystals. NWAD SEMI-FORMED.1

SEMI-INDURATED, a. [semi and indurated.] Imperfectly indurated or hardened. NWAD SEMI-INDURATED.1

SEMI-LAPIDIFIED, a. [semi and lapidified.] Imperfectly changed into stone. NWAD SEMI-LAPIDIFIED.1

SEMI-LENTICULAR, a. [semi and lenticular.] Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens. NWAD SEMI-LENTICULAR.1

SEMILUNAR, SEMILUNARY, a. [L. semi, and luna, moon.] Resembling in form a half moon. NWAD SEMILUNAR.1

SEMI-METAL, n. [semi and metal.] An imperfect metal, or rather a metal that is not malleable, as bismuth, arsenic, nickel, cobalt, zinc, antimony, maganese, tungsten, molybden, and uranite. The name however is usually given to the regulus of these substances. NWAD SEMI-METAL.1

SEMI-METALLIC, a. Pertaining to a semi-metal, or partaking of its nature and qualities. NWAD SEMI-METALLIC.1

SEMINAL, a. [L. seminalis, from semen, seed; from the root of sow.] NWAD SEMINAL.1

1. Pertaining to seed, or to the elements of production. NWAD SEMINAL.2

2. Contained in a seed; radical; rudimental; original; as seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. NWAD SEMINAL.3

Seminal leaf, the same as seed-leaf. NWAD SEMINAL.4

SEMINAL, n. Seminal state. NWAD SEMINAL.5

SEMINALITY, n. The nature of seed; or the power of being produced. NWAD SEMINALITY.1

SEMINARIST, n. [from seminary.] A Romish priest educated in a seminary. NWAD SEMINARIST.1

SEMINARY, n. [L. seminarium, from semen, seed; semino, to sow.] NWAD SEMINARY.1

1. A seed-plant; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; as, to transplant trees from a seminary. NWAD SEMINARY.2

[In this sense, the word is not used in America; being superseded by nusery.] NWAD SEMINARY.3

2. The place or original stock whence anything is brought. NWAD SEMINARY.4

This stratum, being the seminary or promptuary, furnishing matter for the formation of animal or vegetable bodies- Woodward. [Not in use.] NWAD SEMINARY.5

3. Seminal state. [Not in use.] NWAD SEMINARY.6

4. Source of propagation. NWAD SEMINARY.7

5. A place of education; any school, academy, college or univerlity, in which young persons are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for future employments. [This is the only signification of the word in the United States, at least as far as my knowledge extends.] NWAD SEMINARY.8

6. A Romish priest educated in a seminary; a seminarist. NWAD SEMINARY.9

SEMINARY, a. Seminal; belonging to seed. NWAD SEMINARY.10

SEMINATE, v.t. [L. semino] To sow; to spread; to propagate. NWAD SEMINATE.1

SEMINATION, n. [L. seminatio.] NWAD SEMINATION.1

1. The act of sowing. NWAD SEMINATION.2

2. In botany, the natural dispersion of seeds. NWAD SEMINATION.3

SEMINED, a. Thick covered, as with seeds. NWAD SEMINED.1

SEMINIFEROUS, a. [L. semen, seed, and fero, to produce.] Seed-bearing; producing seed. NWAD SEMINIFEROUS.1

SEMIFIC, SEMINIFICAL, a. [L. semen, seed and facio, to make.] Forming or producing seed. NWAD SEMIFIC.1

SEMINIFICATION, n. Propagation from the seed or seminal parts. NWAD SEMINIFICATION.1

SEMI-OPA-COUS, SEMI-OPAKE, a. [L. semi and opacus.] Half transparent only. NWAD SEMI-OPA-COUS.1

SEMI-OPAL, n. A variety of opal. NWAD SEMI-OPAL.1

SEMI-ORBICLAR, a. [semi and orbicular.] Having the shape of a half orb or sphere. NWAD SEMI-ORBICLAR.1

SEMI-ORDINATE, n. [semi and ordinate.] In conic sections, a line drawn at right angles to and bisected by the axis, and reaching from one side of the section to the other; the half of which is properly semi-ordinate, but is now called the ordinate. NWAD SEMI-ORDINATE.1

SEMI-OSSEOUS, a. [semi and osseous.] Half as hard as bone. NWAD SEMI-OSSEOUS.1

SEMI-OVATE, a. [semi and ovate.] Half egg-shaped. NWAD SEMI-OVATE.1

SEMI-OXYGENATED, a. Half saturated with oxygen. NWAD SEMI-OXYGENATED.1

SEMI-PALMATE, SEMI-PALMATED, a. [semi and palmate.] Half palmated or webbed. NWAD SEMI-PALMATE.1

SEMIPED, n. [semi and L. pes, a foot.] A half foot in poetry. NWAD SEMIPED.1

SEMIPEDAL, a. Containing a half foot. NWAD SEMIPEDAL.1

SEMI-PELAGIAN, n. In ecclesiastical history, the Semi-pelagians are persons who retain some tincture of the doctrines of pelagius. See Pelagianism. They hold that God has not by predestination dispensed his grace to one more than another; that Christ died to all men; that the grace purchased by Christ and necessary to salvation, is offered to all men; that man, before he receives grace, is capable of faith and holy desires; and that man being born free, is capable of accepting grace, or of resisting its influences. NWAD SEMI-PELAGIAN.1

SEMI-PELAGIAN, a. Pertaining to the Semi-pelagians, or other tenets. NWAD SEMI-PELAGIAN.2

SEMI-PELAGIANISM, n. The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-pelagians, supra. NWAD SEMI-PELAGIANISM.1

SEMI-PELLUCID, a. [semi and pellucid.] Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as a semi-pellucid gem. NWAD SEMI-PELLUCID.1

SEMI-PELLUCIDITY, n. The quality or state of being imperfecty transparent. NWAD SEMI-PELLUCIDITY.1

SEMI-PERSPICUOUS, a. [semi and perspicuous.] Half transparent; imperfectly clear. NWAD SEMI-PERSPICUOUS.1

SEMI-PHLOGISTICATED, a. [semi and phlogisticated.] Partially impregnated with phlogiston. NWAD SEMI-PHLOGISTICATED.1

SEMI-PRIMIGENOUS, a. [semi and primigenous.] In geology, of a middle nature between substances of primary and secondaryformation. NWAD SEMI-PRIMIGENOUS.1

SEMI-PROOF, n. [semi and proof.] Half proof evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Little used.] NWAD SEMI-PROOF.1

SEMI-PROTOLITE, n. [semi and Gr. first and stone.] A species of fossil of a middle nature between substances of primary and those of secondary formation. NWAD SEMI-PROTOLITE.1

SEMI-QUADRATE, SEMI-QUARTILE, n. [L. semi and quadratus, or quartus, fourth.] An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other at half a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, one sign and a half. NWAD SEMI-QUADRATE.1

SEMIQUAVER, n. [semi and quaver.] In music, a note of half the duration of the quaver; the sixteenth of the semibreve. NWAD SEMIQUAVER.1

SEMIQUAVER, v.t. To sound or sing in semiquavers. NWAD SEMIQUAVER.2

SEMI-QUINTILE, n. [L. semi and quintilis.] An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees. NWAD SEMI-QUINTILE.1

SEMI-SAVAGE, a. [semi and savage.] Half savage; half barbarian. NWAD SEMI-SAVAGE.1

SEMI-SAVAGE, n. One who is half savage or imperfectly civilized. NWAD SEMI-SAVAGE.2

SEMI-SEXTILE, n. [semi and sextile.] An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. NWAD SEMI-SEXTILE.1

SEMI-SPHERIC, SEMI-SPHERICAL, a. [semi and spherical.] Having the figure of a half sphere. NWAD SEMI-SPHERIC.1

SEMI-SPHEROIDAL, a. [semi and spheroidal.] Formed like a half spheroid. NWAD SEMI-SPHEROIDAL.1

SEMITERTIAN, a. [semi and tertian.] Compounded of a tertian and a quotidian ague. NWAD SEMITERTIAN.1

SEMITERTIAN, n. Am intermittent compounded of a tertian and a quotidian. NWAD SEMITERTIAN.2

SEMITONE, n. [semi and tone.] In music, half a tone; an interval of sound, as between mi and fa on the diatonic scale, which is only half the distance of an interval between ut and re, or sol and la. It is the smallest interval admitted in modern. NWAD SEMITONE.1

SEMITONIC, a. Pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a simitone. NWAD SEMITONIC.1

SEMI-TRANSEPT, n. [semi and transept; L. trans and septum.] the half of a transept or cross aisle. NWAD SEMI-TRANSEPT.1

SEMI-TRANSPARENT, a. [semi and transparent.] Half or imperfectly transparent. NWAD SEMI-TRANSPARENT.1

SEMI-TRANSPARENCY, n. Imperfect transparency; partial opakeness. NWAD SEMI-TRANSPARENCY.1

SEMI-VITREOUS, a. Partially vitreous. NWAD SEMI-VITREOUS.1

SEMI-VITRIFICATION, n. [semi and vitrification.] NWAD SEMI-VITRIFICATION.1

1. The state of being imperfectly vitrified. NWAD SEMI-VITRIFICATION.2

2. A substance imperfectly vitrified. NWAD SEMI-VITRIFICATION.3

SEMI-VITRIFIED, a. [See Vitrify.] Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass. NWAD SEMI-VITRIFIED.1

SEMI-VOCAL, a. [semi and vocal.] Pertaining to a semi-vowel; Half vocal; imperfectly sounding. NWAD SEMI-VOCAL.1

SEMI-VOWEL, n. [semi and vowel.] In grammar, a half vowel, or an articulation which is accompanied with an imperfect sound. Thus el, em, en, though uttered with close organs do not wholly interrupt the sound; and they are called semi-vowels. NWAD SEMI-VOWEL.1

SEMPERVIRENT, a. [L. semper, always and virens, flourishing.] Always fresh; evergreen. NWAD SEMPERVIRENT.1

SEMPERVIVE, n. [L. semper, always, and vivus, alive.] A plant. NWAD SEMPERVIVE.1

SEMPITERNAL, a. [L. sempiternus; semper, always, and eternus, eternal.] NWAD SEMPITERNAL.1

1. Eternal in futurity; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. NWAD SEMPITERNAL.2

2. Eternal; everlasting. NWAD SEMPITERNAL.3

SEMPITERNITY, n. [L. sempiternitas.] Future duration without end. NWAD SEMPITERNITY.1

SEMSTER, n. A seamster; a man who uses a needle. [Not in use.] NWAD SEMSTER.1

SEN, adv. This word is usedby some of our common people for since. It seems to be a contraction of since, or it is the Sw. sen, Dan. seen, slow, late. NWAD SEN.1

SENARY, a. [L. seni, senarius.] Of six; belonging to six; containing six. NWAD SENARY.1

SENATE, n. [L. senatus, from senex, old.] NWAD SENATE.1

1. An a assembly or council of senators; a body of the principal inhabitants of the city or state, with a share in the government. The senate of ancient Rome was one of the most illustrious bodies of men that ever bore this name. Some of the Swiss cantons have a senate, either legislative or executive. NWAD SENATE.2

2. In the United States, senate denotes the higher branch or house of legislature. Such is the senate of the United States, or upper house of the congress; and in most of the states, the higher and least numerous branch of the legislature, is called the senate. In the U. States, the senate is an elective body. NWAD SENATE.3

3. In a looser sense, Any legislative or deliberative boky of men; as the eloquence of the senate. NWAD SENATE.4

SENATE-HOUSE, n. A house in which a senate meets, or a place of public council. NWAD SENATE-HOUSE.1

SENATOR, n. NWAD SENATOR.1

1. A mimber of a senate. In Rome one of the qualifications of a senator was the possession of property to the amount of 80,000 sesterces, about 7000 pounds sterling, or thirty dollars. In Scotland, the lords of session are called senators of the college of justices. NWAD SENATOR.2

2. A counselor; a judge or magistrate. NWAD SENATOR.3

SENATORIAL, a. NWAD SENATORIAL.1

1. Pertaining to a senate; becoming a senator; as senatorial robes; senatorial eloquence. NWAD SENATORIAL.2

2. Entitled to elect a senator; as senatorial district. NWAD SENATORIAL.3

SENATORIALLY, adv. In the manner of a senate; with dignity or solemnity. NWAD SENATORIALLY.1

SENATORSHIP, n. The office or dignity of a senator. NWAD SENATORSHIP.1

SEND, v.t. pret. and pp. sent. NWAD SEND.1

1. In a general sense, to throw, cast or thrust; to impel or drive by force to a distance, either with the hand or with an instrument or by other means. We send a ball with the hand or with a bat; a bow sends an arrow; a cannon sends a shot; a trumpet sends the voice much farther than the unassisted organs of speech. NWAD SEND.2

2. To cause to be conveyed or transmitted; as, to send letters or dispatches from one country to another. NWAD SEND.3

3. To cause to go or pass from place to place; as, to send a messenger from London to Madrid. NWAD SEND.4

4. To commission, autorize or direct to go and act. NWAD SEND.5

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jeremiah 23:21. NWAD SEND.6

5. To cause to come or fall; to bestow. NWAD SEND.7

He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:45. NWAD SEND.8

6. To cause to come or fall; to inflict. NWAD SEND.9

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation and rebuke. Deuteronomy 28:20. NWAD SEND.10

7. To propagate; to diffuse. NWAD SEND.11

Cherubic songs by night from neighb’ring hills NWAD SEND.12

Aerial music send. Milton. NWAD SEND.13

To send away, to dismiss; to cause to depart. NWAD SEND.14

To send forth or out, to produce; to put or bring forth; as, a tree sends forth branches. NWAD SEND.15

2. To emit; as flowers send forth their fragrance. NWAD SEND.16

SEND, v.i. To dispatch an agent or messenger for some purpose. NWAD SEND.17

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 2 Kings 6:32. NWAD SEND.18

So we say, we sent to invite guests; we sent to inquire into the facts. NWAD SEND.19

To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought; as, to send for a physician; to send for a coach. But these expressions are elliptical. NWAD SEND.20

SENDAL, n. A light thin stuff of silk or thread. [Not in use.] NWAD SENDAL.1

SENDER, n. One that sends. NWAD SENDER.1

SENEGA, SENEKA, n. A plant called rattlesnake root, of the genus Polygala. NWAD SENEGA.1

SENESCENCE, n. [L. senesco, from senex, old. See Senate.] The state of growing old; decay by time. NWAD SENESCENCE.1

SENESCHAL, n. A steward; an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, who has the superintendance of feasts and domestic ceremonies. In some instances, the seneschal is an officer who has the dispensing of justice, as the high seneschal of England, etc. NWAD SENESCHAL.1

SENGREEN, n. A plant, the houseleek, of the genus Sempervivium. NWAD SENGREEN.1

SENILE, a. [L. senilis.] Pertaining to old age; proceeding from age. NWAD SENILE.1

SENILITY, n. Old age. [Not much used.] NWAD SENILITY.1

SENIOR, a. see’nyor. [L. senior, comp. of senex, old.] Elder or older; but as an adjective, it usually signifies older in office; as the senior pastor of a church, where there are colleagues; a senior counselor. In such use, senior has no reference to age, for a senior counselor may be, and ofted is the younger man. NWAD SENIOR.1

SENIOR, n. see’nyor. NWAD SENIOR.2

1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life. NWAD SENIOR.3

2. One that is older in office, or one whose first entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another. Thus a senator or counselor of sixty years of age, often has a senior who is not fifty years of age. NWAD SENIOR.4

3. An aged person; one of the oldest inhabitants. NWAD SENIOR.5

A senior of the place replies. Dryden. NWAD SENIOR.6

SENIORITY, n. NWAD SENIORITY.1

1. Eldership; superior age; priority of birth. He is the elder brother, and entitled to the plae of seniority. NWAD SENIORITY.2

2. Priority in office; as the seniority of a pastor or counselor. NWAD SENIORITY.3

SENNA, n. The leaf of the cassia senna, a native of the east, used as a cathartic. NWAD SENNA.1

SENNIGHT, n. sen’nit. [contracted from sevennight, as fortnight from fourteennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week. The court will be held this sennight, that is, a week from this day; or the court will be held next Tuesday sennight, a week from next Tuesday. NWAD SENNIGHT.1

SENOCULAR, a. [L. seni, six, and oculus, the eye.] Having six eyes. NWAD SENOCULAR.1

Most animals are binocular, spiders are octonocular, and some are senocular. Derham. NWAD SENOCULAR.2

SENSATED, a. [See Sense.] Perceived by the senses. [Not used.] NWAD SENSATED.1

SENSATION, n. [from L. sensus, sentio, to perceive. See Sense.] The perception of external objects by means of the senses. NWAD SENSATION.1

Sensation is an exertion or charge of the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it, beginning at some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles or organs of sense. The secretion of tears in grief is caused by the sensation of pain. Efforts of the will are frequently accompanied by painful or pleasurable sensations. NWAD SENSATION.2

SENSE, n. [from L. sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.] NWAD SENSE.1

1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the boky. NWAD SENSE.2

Sense is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. NWAD SENSE.3

2. Sensation; perception by the senses. NWAD SENSE.4

3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment. NWAD SENSE.5

4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception. NWAD SENSE.6

5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason. NWAD SENSE.7

Opprest nature sleeps; NWAD SENSE.8

This rest might yet have balm’d thy broken senses. Shak. NWAD SENSE.9

6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning. NWAD SENSE.10

He raves; his words are loose NWAD SENSE.11

As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden. NWAD SENSE.12

7. Opinion; notion; judgement. NWAD SENSE.13

I speak my private but impartial sense NWAD SENSE.14

With freedom. Roscommon. NWAD SENSE.15

8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness. NWAD SENSE.16

9. Moral perception. NWAD SENSE.17

Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. L’Estrange. NWAD SENSE.18

10. Meaning; important; signification; as the true sense of words or phrases. In interpretation, we are to examine whether words are to be understood in a literal or figurative sense. So we speak of a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, etc. NWAD SENSE.19

Common sense, that power of the mind which, by a kind of instinct, or a short process of reasoning, perceives truth, the relation of things, cause and effect, etc. and hence enables the possessor to discern what is right, useful, expedient, or proper, and adopt the best meams to accomplish his purpose. This power seems to be the gift of nature, improved by experience and observation. NWAD SENSE.20

Moral sense, a determination of the mind to be pleased with the contemplation of those effections, actions or characters of rational agents, which are called good or virtuous. NWAD SENSE.21

SENSED, pp. Perceived by the senses. [Not in use.] NWAD SENSED.1

SENSEFUL, a. sens’ful. Reasonable; judicious. [Not in use.] NWAD SENSEFUL.1

SENSELESS, a. sens’less. NWAD SENSELESS.1

1. Wanting the faculty of perception. The body when dead is senseless; but a limb or other part of the body may be senseless, when the rest of the boky enjoys its usual sensibility. NWAD SENSELESS.2

2. Unfelling; wanting sympathy. NWAD SENSELESS.3

The senseless feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. NWAD SENSELESS.4

3. Unreasonable; foolish; stupid. NWAD SENSELESS.5

They would repent this their senseless perverseness, when it would be to late. Clarendon. NWAD SENSELESS.6

4. Unreasonable; stupid; acting without sense or judgement. NWAD SENSELESS.7

Ther were a senseless stupid race. Swift. NWAD SENSELESS.8

5. Contrary to reason or sound judgement; as, to destroy by a senseless fondness the happiness of children. NWAD SENSELESS.9

6. Wanting knowledge; unconscious; with of; as libertiness, senseless of any charm in love. NWAD SENSELESS.10

7. Wanting sensibility or quick perception. NWAD SENSELESS.11

SENSELESSLY adv. sens’lessly. In a senseless manner; stupidly; unreasonably; as a man senselessly arrogant. NWAD SENSELESSLY.1

SENSELESSNESS, n. sens’lessness. Unreasonableness; folly; stupidity; absurdity. NWAD SENSELESSNESS.1

SENSIBILITY, n. NWAD SENSIBILITY.1

1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies; as when we say, a frozen limb has lost its sensibility. NWAD SENSIBILITY.2

2. Acuteness of sensation; applied to the body. NWAD SENSIBILITY.3

3. Capacity of acuteness of perception; that quality of the soul which renders it susceptible of impressions; delicacy of feeling; as sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility. NWAD SENSIBILITY.4

4. Actual feeling. NWAD SENSIBILITY.5

This adds to my great sensibility. Burke. NWAD SENSIBILITY.6

[This word is often used in this manner for sensation.] NWAD SENSIBILITY.7

5. It is sometimes used in the plural. NWAD SENSIBILITY.8

His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism, than of wounded pride. Marshall. NWAD SENSIBILITY.9

Sensibilities unfriendly to happiness, may be acquired. Encyc. NWAD SENSIBILITY.10

6. Nice perception, so to speak, of a balance; that quality of a balance which renders it movable with the smallest weight, or the quality or state of any insrument that renders it easily affected; as the sensibility of a balance or of a thermometer. NWAD SENSIBILITY.11

SENSIBLE, a. NWAD SENSIBLE.1

1. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs. We say the body or the flesh is sensible, when it feels the impulse of an external body. It may be more or less sensible. NWAD SENSIBLE.2

2. Perceptible by the senses. The light of the moon furnishes no sensible heat. NWAD SENSIBLE.3

Air is sensible to the touch by its motion. Arbuthnot. NWAD SENSIBLE.4

3. Perceptible or perceived by the mind. NWAD SENSIBLE.5

The disgrace was more sensible then the pain. Temple. NWAD SENSIBLE.6

4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the mind or the senses. NWAD SENSIBLE.7

A man cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke. NWAD SENSIBLE.8

5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil. NWAD SENSIBLE.9

If thou wert sensible of courtesy, NWAD SENSIBLE.10

I should not make so great a show of zeal. Shak. NWAD SENSIBLE.11

6. Having acute intellectual feeling; being easily or strongly affected; as, to be sensible of wrong. NWAD SENSIBLE.12

7. Perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded. NWAD SENSIBLE.13

They are now sensible it would have been better to comply, than refuse. Addison. NWAD SENSIBLE.14

8. Intelligent; descerning; as a sensible man. NWAD SENSIBLE.15

9. Moved by a very small weight or impulse; as, a sensible balance is necessary to ascertain exact weight. NWAD SENSIBLE.16

10. Affected by a slight degree of heat or cold; as a sensible thermometer. NWAD SENSIBLE.17

11. Containing good sense or sound reason. NWAD SENSIBLE.18

He addressed Claudius in the following sensible and noble speech. Henry. NWAD SENSIBLE.19

Sensible note, in music, that which constitutes a third major above the dominant, and a semitone beneath the tonic. NWAD SENSIBLE.20

SENSIBLE, n. Sensation; also, whatever may be perceived. NWAD SENSIBLE.21

SENSIBLENESS, n. NWAD SENSIBLENESS.1

1. Possibility of being perceived by the senses; as the sensibleness of odor or sound. NWAD SENSIBLENESS.2

2. Actual perception by the mind or body; as the sensibleness of an impression on the organs. [But qu.] NWAD SENSIBLENESS.3

3. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception; as the sensibleness of the eye. NWAD SENSIBLENESS.4

4. Susceptibility; capacity of being strongly affected, or actual feeling; consciousness; as the sensibleness of the soul and sorrow for sin. NWAD SENSIBLENESS.5

5. Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense. NWAD SENSIBLENESS.6

6. Susceptibility of slight impressions. [See Sensible, No. 9, 10.] NWAD SENSIBLENESS.7

SENSIBLY, adv. NWAD SENSIBLY.1

1. In a manner to be perceived by the senses; perceptibly to the senses; as pain sensibly increased; motion sensibly accelerated. NWAD SENSIBLY.2

2. With perception, either of mind or body. He feels his loss very sensibly. NWAD SENSIBLY.3

3. Externally; by affecting the senses. NWAD SENSIBLY.4

4. With quick intellectual perception. NWAD SENSIBLY.5

5. With intelligence or good sense; judiciously. The man converses very sensibly on all common topics. NWAD SENSIBLY.6

SENSITIVE, a. [L. sensitivus, from sensus, sentio.] NWAD SENSITIVE.1

1. Having sense or feeling, or having the capacity of perceiving impressions from external objects; as sensitive soul; sensitive appetite; sensitive faculty. NWAD SENSITIVE.2

2. That affects the senses; as sensitive objects. NWAD SENSITIVE.3

3. Pertaining to the senses, or to sensation; depending on sensation; as sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. NWAD SENSITIVE.4

SENSITIVELY, adv. In a sensitive manner. NWAD SENSITIVELY.1