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单词 sensile
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sensileadj.

Brit. /ˈsɛnsʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈsɛns(ə)l/, /ˈsɛnˌsaɪl/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sensilis.
Etymology: < classical Latin sensilis capable of sensation, in post-classical Latin also perceptible (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < sens- , past participial stem of sentīre to feel (see sentient adj.) + -ilis -il suffix. Compare earlier sensible adj., sensitive adj.
1. Perceptible or verifiable by means of the senses; sensible (sensible adj. 2a). Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).
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?1548 A. Gilby Answer Deuillish Detection S. Gardiner f. lxxxiiiiv Then when they be naturally ioyned to the substance of bread, whereof that God thus doeth not, mans senses (because those accidentes be sensile) may Iudge for we se it so.
1634 L. Anderton Triple Cord xxi. 463 But in Condemnation of this Heresy, the Catholike Church teacheth..that in the sacred holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, after the Consecration of Bread and wyne, Our Lord Iesus-Christ, true God and Man, is truly, really, and substantially vnder the forme of these sensile things contayned.
1647 W. Petty Advice to Hartlib 15 Hee shall write of the sensile and evident Qualities of all Drugges, as of their smell, tast, ponderosity, rarity, friability, transparency, colour, hardnesse, &c. omitting such as are not discernable by sense.
1695 R. Sault tr. N. Malebranche Search after Truth II. vi. ix. 288 But we must demonstrate, by Sensile Experiments [Fr. experiences sensibles], what we have been proving by abstracted Reasonings.
1902 Amer. Eccl. Rev. 26 231 Sensism (phenomenalism) which admits sensile data or phenomena only and denies or doubts of any special subphenomenal reality.
2. Capable of sensation; sensitive.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective]
passiblec1384
apprehensivea1398
feelinga1400
sensible?c1400
sufferablec1400
perceptible?a1430
sensatea1500
sensive?1541
senting1572
patible1602
sentient1632
sensile1650
sensatinga1652
perceptive1652
percipient1692
perceiving1736
1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Deliramenta Catarrhi 33 No tooth, therefore, aketh by reason of a Defluxion: but because, upon a detection of the Gum, it becomes too sensile [L. nimium sensilis factus].
1680 W. Charleton Enq. Human Nature iii. 111 So that the Complacency of which the stomach is then sensible, seems referrible to the Sense of Touching, common to all sensile parts of the body.
1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xiii. 102 So that it is no Wonder, that a Grain of Opium operates in so short a time, that is, as soon as a Tincture thereof insinuates it self through the Crusta Carnosa to the sensile Coat of the Stomach.
1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things II. vi. 904 Others with stench the sensile nostrils teaze.
1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. i. 41 Different organic series, muscular, glandular, and sensile.
2011 L. V. Knutson & J.-C. Vala Biol. Snail-killing Sciomyzidae Flies xiv. 222/1 Sensile setae..are always long in aquatic larvae..and short in terrestrial and parasitoid larvae.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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