释义 |
sensify, v.|ˈsɛnsɪfaɪ| [ad. late L. sensificāre, f. sens-us sense n.: see -ify.] trans. To transform (physical changes) into sensation. Hence ˈsensiˌfying ppl. a.
1678J. Brown Disc. Wounds 238 The Nerves are soon resolved and distended, the senses flagg, and the Sensifying Quality doth perish. 1881W. M. Williams Sci. in Short Chapters (1882) 44 In such a world of intermediate activities the insect probably lives..with his minute eye-like ear-bag sensifying material movements that lie between our world of sounds and our other far-distant worlds of heat and light. |