Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.

Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Sensation; sensibility.

The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

Converting into sensation.

Exciting sensation; conveying sensation.

Exciting sensation.

Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.

Causing or exciting sensation.

Same as Sensualism, 2 3.

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

An agent that sensitizes.

An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

See Sensory.

Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.

The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.

Sensual.

The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.

The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.

To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

In a sensual manner.

Sensuality; fleshliness.

Sensualism.

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

imp. p. p. of Send.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.

In a sentential manner.

A sententiary.

One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.

The quality or state of being sententious.

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

A sentry.

Scent.

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

In a sentient or perceptive way.

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

The quality or state of being sentimental.

To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.

In a sentimental manner.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

To watch over like a sentinel.

Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.

A leaf or division of the calyx.

Having one or more sepals.

Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.

Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical.

Designed or employed to separate.

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam.

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Causing, or being to cause, separation.

One who, or that which, separates. A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue. An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.

An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.

The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.

See Supawn.

Admitting of burial.

Burial.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.

Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.

A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially Trygon sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.

Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.

Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.

Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

See Supawn.

To set apart.

To set aside; to give up.

The act of setting aside, or of giving up.

A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.

Same as Hara-kiri.

A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.

The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

Septicaemia.

Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

See Heptane.

A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.

Heptagonal.

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

A Setembrist.

An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.