sensate
English
Etymology
From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.seɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
sensate (comparative more sensate, superlative most sensate)
- Perceived by one or more of the senses.
- Having the ability to sense things physically.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sentient
- 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
- Mendicant was able to postpone its inevitable annihilation for [106:S] with its attempt to flee. But the last of its core vessels hangs before me now; crippled and defeated but still sensate.
- 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
sensate (third-person singular simple present sensates, present participle sensating, simple past and past participle sensated)
- (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.
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
sensate
- feminine plural of sensato
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From sēnsātus (“sensible, intelligent”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sẽːˈsaː.teː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [senˈsaː.t̪e]
Adverb
sensātē (not comparable)
Etymology 2
Adjective
sēnsāte
- vocative masculine singular of sēnsātus
References
- sensate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
sensate