common-sensibleadj.n.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 25 (MED) Þe comune sensible þingis..whiche þingis ben þese v: Mouyng, Rest, Gretnesse, Nombre and ffigure.

1625 A. Udny Golden Bell sig. B4^v The fiue common sensible things, Magnitudo, numerus, motus, quies, forma.

1675 R. Gower tr. F. de Le Boë New Idea Pract. Physic xviii. 111 Serous, Phlegmatic, or peccant in any other Proper or Common Sensible Quality.

1777 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. ii. ii. 111 That matter, whose particles, when agitated in a peculiar and violent manner, produce the common sensible fire.

1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxvii. 470 We must learn to give and receive rational explanations, and to follow by process of reasoning from one form to another... We select the common sensible objects as an easier preparatory mode.

1958 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 18 545 We can..accept our takings of things as having some common sensible characteristic as adequate evidence for there really being things having such characteristics.

2007 Philos. Stud. 135 218 That it is a central theory informing all our senses explains the ‘common sensible’ characteristic of the primary properties.

1813 Ld. Byron Let. 22 Apr. (1974) III. 42 Having lately lived with commonsensible people—these heroics are too Devonshire for me.

1851 N. Hawthorne Snow-image 31 This highly benevolent and common-sensible individual.

1931 Sat. Rev. 6 June 819/2 The Archbishop of York's speech is ranked as the best; next to that Lord Newton's, witty, humorous, and commonsensible.

2007 Express (Nexis) 23 Apr. 12 A common-sensible kind of girl.

1557 H. Iden tr. G. B. Gelli Circes x. sig. K.v Thou arte deceaued of the mouing, and of the greatnes of the sonne, both the one and thother beyng common sensibles.

1598 tr. A. Romei Courtiers Acad. 28 Most learned Psellus, which hold opinion, that common sensibles are rather knowne by reason, stirred vp by the senses, then by the sense themselues.

1660 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Thirteen Bks. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) vii. i. 372 The sight never mistakes Sound for Colour, nor the Ear Smel for Sound: but concerning the common sensibles it may be thus deceived.

1702 T. Brown tr. G. B. Gelli Circe x. 266 You are very much mistaken as to the motion and greatness of the Sun, both of them being common sensibles.

1808 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle On Soul ii. in Treatises 53 Common sensibles are, motion, rest, number, figure, and magnitude; for things of this kind are the peculiarities of no sense, but are common to all the senses.

1846 W. Hamilton in T. Reid Wks. 860/2 The common sensibles might appear not to be sensibles at all, or sensibles only per accidens.

1959 Proc. Amer. Catholic Philos. Assoc. 33 45 What the mind applies must be a common sensible, that is, a sensible which can be apprehended by more than one sense.

2014 T. Bayne in D. J. Bennett & C. S. Hill Sensory Integration & Unity of Consciousness ii.15 I begin by considering whether the decomposition thesis can accommodate the unity of consciousness and the perception of common sensibles.

1849 Athenæum 7 July 692/3 Neither so madly mystical as ‘Mardi’, nor as common-sensibly humorous and exciting withal as Capt. Marryat's stories.

1943 Times 28 June 2/1 How can we possibly expect workpeople or their organizations to look at questions like this dispassionately, reasonably, commonsensibly?

2013 C. O'Dell June Cleaver was Feminist! ii. 40 Sometimes the genders are reversed, with the wife portrayed common-sensibly and the husband as madcap and prone to outrageous plans.