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sensualist|ˈsɛnʃuːəlɪst|
[f. sensual a. + -ist. Cf. F. sensualiste (1812 in sense 2).]
1. One whose disposition and conduct are sensual; one whose sole interests are in the things of sense; chiefly, one who is devoted to sensual pleasure, or given to vicious indulgence of the animal passions.
The various shades of meaning can hardly be distinguished in the early examples.
1662Hibbert Body Divinity i. 310 It is charged as a foul fault upon those sensualists that they had lived in pleasure. 1682J. Flavel Fear ii. Wks. 1701 I. 577/1 As it is noted of those secure Sensualists, Amos vi. 3. They put far from them the evil Day. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §16 Those pleasures which are highest in the esteem of sensualists. 1773Observ. State Poor 64 It is not the fear of lothsome or excruciating disease, that will deter the sensualist or the epicure from the indulgences of their appetites. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. ii. 45 As blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iii, Even for the basest Sensualist, what is Sense but the implement of Fantasy? 1871Burr Ad Fidem ix. 176 The sty of the sensualist.
2. = sensationalist.
1852Wight tr. Cousin's Course Hist. Mod. Philos. II. 138 On which side shall I rank myself, in this great battle of European philosophy in the eighteenth century? Shall I be a sensualist? 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. x. vi. (ed. 2) 261 That school of philosophers who are called ‘the sensualists’. |