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▪ I. sensate, a.|ˈsɛnsət|
[ad. late L. sensāt-us gifted with sense, f. sensus sense: see -ate2 2.]
1. Endowed with physical sensation.
c1500H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) 536 Sensualyte..by whom I haue power To do as all sensate bestys do.
†2. Of the nature of or involving sensation. Obs.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 86 In his Theætetus he [Plato] laies down this as his opinion,..It seems to me, that he who knows any thing has a sensate cognition of what he knows. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. iii. 290 That Fourth Principle..From whose power all sensate motions [orig. sensiferos motus] flow.
†3. ? Endowed with sensibility. Obs.
1796M. Robinson Angelina II. 264 Give me the sensate mind, that knows The vast extent of human woes!
4. Perceived by the senses.
1847in Webster. [Hence in later Dicts.] 1898Westm. Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/1 Mr. Merriman, it would seem, is of those who hold that poetry co-exists with the least congenial of elements, being common to all sensate things.
5. Sociol. In the theory of P. A. Sorokin, a type of culture in which the satisfaction of material needs and desires is the main objective. Cf. idealistic a. 2 and ideational a. 2.
1937[see ideational a. 2]. 1959C. C. Zimmerman in J. S. Roucek Contemp. Sociol. 18 In sensate culture the main outlook for the individual is for extra-person stimuli, for articles which appeal to the ordinary untrained tastes, such as is seen in a quantity consumption culture. 1967T. Parsons Sociological Theory & Mod. Society iv. xii. 388 The idealistic synthesis has then proceeded to break down into an increasingly sensate phase. 1977J. D. Douglas in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. i. 69 Most men have distinguished between such sacred thought and everyday, practical thought. (It is important, however, to note that rarely has this distinction been as sharp and important as in our increasingly sensate or secular culture.)
▪ II. sensate, v.|sɛnˈseɪt|
[f. L. sens-us sense n. + -ate3, after sensation.]
1. trans. To perceive by sense; to have a sensation of.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. iv. (1821) 93 These corporeal motions, as they seem to arise from nothing else but merely from the machina of the body itself; so they could not at all be sensated but by the soul. 1665Hooke Microgr. 179 Each of them can distinctly sensate or see onely those parts which are very neer perpendicularly oppos'd to it. 1889Academy 16 Nov. 323/2 We find an irresistible impulse to find strain..or motion..of the ether wherever we sensate anything electrical.
†2. intr. To have sensation. Obs.
1672Penn Spir. Truth Vind. 24 No man can live, move, sensate, or act but from the original Heat, Life, Motion and Action of that which did beget him. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. 112 When it finds only such, as are proper for sensation, it sensates.
Hence senˈsating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. v. 149 Indeed, without such a universal sensating faculty as this is, we should never know when our souls are in conjunction with the Deity. 1888H. W. Parker Spir. Beauty 58 Sir John Lubbock's experiments proved nothing but the simple sensating of certain crude colors by bees. |