a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 74 The eye that is sensat and visible hath 10 spices..remocion and propinquite, movyng and rest.

?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. biii^v Sensualyte..by whom I haue power To do as all sensate bestys do.

1652 G. Strode tr. C. de Fonseca Θειον Ενωτικον: Disc. Holy Love xxxiv. 178 That good, for which all creatures sensate and insensate were made, which was for others and not for themselves.

1870 G. Field Two Great Bks. Nature & Revelation v. 182 And the law which produced them is continued in the law of ‘increase and multiply,’ which is engraved on all sensate and insensate nature.

1931 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 41 535 All material organisms—including vehicles, machines, and sensate bodies—are inert, and can do no coordinate work until energy is applied to their parts.

1998 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 31 344 In Les Cinq Sens Serres points out how peculiar it is that we need to realign ourselves as thinking subjects with ourselves as sensate bodies.

2000 R. M. Veatch Transplantation Ethics xvii. 262 Revulsion with this image of thousands of primates bred specifically for their organs may increase the possibility that people will join the camp of those who object to using animals, especially sensate animals, for human ends.

1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) iii. xxi. f. xix^v/2 It is comen to al the wittes to haue propre obiect thynges & sensate, in the which they erre not by hap.

1674 R. Baxter Full & Easie Satisfaction vi. 122 If the Intellect in its first Perception (natural and necessary) of the Thing it self, as sensate, be deceived, if faith should be contrary to it, 1. It must be such a Faith which is the immediate contrary perception of a sensate object.

1898 Westm. 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.

1966 Virginia Q. Rev. 42 294 It is the saints, the disinterested men who achieve indifference to the sensate world, who are least likely to be fanatics.

2004 Amer. Sociologist 35 13 Plato often reverts to Socratic skepticism in which the emphasis is placed on the impossibility of knowing the things of this (sensate) world with any confidence.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III i. iv. 86 In his Theætetus he [sc. 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.

1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things I. iii. 290 That Fourth Principle..From whose power all sensate motions [L. sensiferos motus] flow.

1788 European Mag. & London Rev. Feb. 109/1 Such Bliss the sensate bosom knows.

1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. 264 Give me the sensate mind, that knows The vast extent of human woes!

1820 Ladies' Lit. Cabinet 8 July 71/1 Hast thou..seen, to calm thy sensate bosom's feeling, The star that points to everlasting rest?

1937 P. A. Sorokin Social & Cultural Dynamics I. i. ii. 67 Of these two systems one may be termed Ideational culture, the other Sensate.

1977 J. D. Douglas in J. D. Douglas & J. M. Johnson Existential Sociol. i. 69 Our increasingly sensate or secular culture.

2007 Social Psychol. Q. 70 227/2 An important feature of Sorokin's analysis was that the sensate principle invaded all cultural particulars.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. iv. 87 These Corporeal motions, as they seem to arise from nothing else but meerly from the Machina of the Body it self; so they could not at all be sensated but by the Soul.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 179 Each of them can distinctly sensate or see onely those parts which are very neer perpendicularly oppos'd to it.

1861 W. Woodman Existence of God 65 If the God-idea came through the channel of the senses, the deity must be susceptible of being sensated.

1889 Academy 16 Nov. 323/2 We find an irresistible impulse to find strain..or motion..of the ether wherever we sensate anything electrical.

1906 H. H. Joachim Nature of Truth 41 Greenness is there, in itself; and, though it may be sensated, its relation to the sentient consciousness leaves it in the relation precisely what it was when not so related, and what it will be again when no one is sensating it.

1960 Jrnl. Existential Psychiatry 1 134 He had sensated many experiences.

1995 B. M. Farnell Human Action Signs in Cultural Context 20 If mind is the locus of the subject in an inner world of meaning, then the body is relegated to sensating matter outside that world.

1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 24 No man can live, move, sensate, or act but from the original Heat, Life, Motion and Action of that which did beget him.

1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. 112 When it finds only such, as are proper for Sensation, it Sensates.

1888 Fayetteville (N. Carolina) Observer 7 June 1/5 (heading) How a cannon-ball sensates.

1917 A. F. Sheldon Sci. Business IV. 107 His trouble began away back at the foundation of the pyramid of thought, for he did not sensate clearly, richly, accurately.

1931 T. Dreiser Dawn lxxv. 438 Not thinking, merely miserably sensating.