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单词 sensable
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sensableadj.1

Forms: late Middle English sensabul.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French sensable, censable.
Etymology: < Middle French sensable (1336), variant of censable able to be assessed or taxed (1336; compare Anglo-Norman censable liable to cess rent (1317 or earlier)) < cense cense n.2 + -able -able suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
Able to be assessed or taxed.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [adjective] > assessed > able to be
sensable?1449
assessable1766
?1449–50 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 204/2 The pepul is forsake the Ile, so at this dai is not xv pepul sensabul.
?1449–50 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 204/2 Seyng no more stuf of Men, nor no stuf of arcerie sensabul left.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

sensableadj.2

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sense n., -able suffix.
Etymology: < sense n. + -able suffix. Compare earlier sensible adj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of a figure of speech: that enhances the sense or meaning of a literary passage, rather than its sound.Apparently only in G. Puttenham.
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. x. 133 Your second [sort of figures] serues the conceit onely and not th'eare, and may be called sensable, not sensible nor yet sententious.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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