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1613 D. Price David his Oath Allegeance Ierusalem 32 in Spirituall Odours The Opticks honour the eie, the Romaines the hand; it is the whole bodies agent, it is the sensorium of the touch only, but the embleme and resemblance of fiue severall senses and their faculties.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 139/2 For there is first a tactuall conjunction as it were of the representative rayes of every thing, with our sensorium before we know the things themselves.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 69 Spontaneous motion is performed by continuation of the Animal Spirits, from the common Sensorium to the Muscle.

1689 T. Tryon Treat. Dreams & Visions ii. 15 When the first Censorium (which is called the Organ of the common Sense) is bound and obstructed with a soporiferous vapour.

1737 Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) (ed. 2) III. 219 Which Agitation is communicated to the Sensorium, or that Part of our Brain in which our Mind does principally reside.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 32 One may question whether in animals of the serpentine Form, and in all those of the polypose Kind, the Sensorium be not equally diffused over the whole medullary Substance.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. ii. 10 The word sensorium in the following pages is designed to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense, and of the muscles; but also at the same time that living principle, or spirit of animation, which resides throughout the body.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxviii. 455 The reason for this appearance is probably that the portion of the retina, or of the sensorium, that is affected, has lost a part of its sensibility to the light of that colour.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 1 Sensation and perception are by the means of nerves and a common sensorium.

1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals iv. 83 When the sensorium is strongly excited, the muscles of the body are generally thrown into violent action.

1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) i. i. §13. 15 That we are not always conscious of the working of this Mechanism, is simply because our Sensorium is otherwise engaged.

1916 Philos. Rev. 25 436 Nor is it necessary to consider the parietal lobes as an expanded and elaborated sensorium and the frontal lobes as an expanded and elaborated motorium in following these contentions.

1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 July 51/2 Sleep is an easily reversible inactivity of the highest functional centres of the cortex which is due to a functional break resulting from a decrease in afferent impulses from the sensorium, especially from the proprioceptors.

2000 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 355 251/1 We focus on neuronal transients and how information is abstracted from the sensorium in early visual processing.

2012 T. K. Johansen Powers of Aristotle's Soul ix. 184 Now we need to explain how wider perceptible contents are realized in the common sensorium.

1694 tr. G. P. Marana Lett. Turkish Spy VIII. i. ix. 40 He [sc. God] is..the Everlasting Common Sensorium of Nature.

1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 565. ¶8 The noblest and most exalted Way of considering this infinite Space is that of Sir Isaac Newton, who calls it the Sensorium of the Godhead.

1759 W. Guthrie Mother II. iii. 29 This room, said Lestrange, I call, to myself, my sensorium, for I never retire hither but that I may give scope to meditation.

1811 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 489/1 The Catholic committee is the sensorium of the Catholic community.

1867 J. MacGregor Voy. Alone in Rob Roy i. 22 The tiller, that delicate and true sensorium of a boat.

1901 Salvation 3 195 Man..‘made in the image of God’ as the representative head and ‘sensorium’ of the world.

1982 W. Gibson Burning Chrome in Omni July 104/3 She was gone, off somewhere in the recorded sensorium of simstim's biggest star.

2009 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 37/1 Guitar Hero's genius was to retain at its core this mimetic act..while conjuring around it..a floating sensorium of rock-and-roll performance.

1890 Lancet 1 Nov. 918/1 This morning she [sc. a girl with cerebro-spinal meningitis] has been somewhat deaf in both ears. Sensorium dull.

1952 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 12 285/1 The most apparent feature of the disease [sc. Japanese B encephalitis] is the altered sensorium which the acutely ill patient exhibits.

1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) viii. 142/1 The extreme of hypothyroidism is myxedema coma, with hypothermia, bradycardia, hypoventilation, and a depressed sensorium.

2010 Clin. Infectious Dis. 50 78/2 This patient died suddenly before any clouding of sensorium developed.