sensualadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsɛnsjʊəl/,

/ˈsɛnsjᵿl/,

/ˈsɛnʃʊəl/,

/ˈsɛnʃ(ᵿ)l/, U.S.

/ˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəl/

Forms: late Middle English sensuale, late Middle English sensuel, late Middle English sensuele, late Middle English sensuell, late Middle English–1600s sensuall, late Middle English– sensual, 1500s censuall, 1500s censuell, 1500s–1600s censual; also Scottish pre-1700 sencewall, pre-1700 sensuale, pre-1700 sinsuall.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French sensuel; Latin sensualis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French sensuel (French sensuel ) physically enjoyable or pleasurable (c1370), (chiefly with negative connotation) involving gratification of the senses, carnal, fleshly (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier), of, relating to, or concerned with the senses or sensation (a1430), given to the gratification of the senses (1485 in the passage translated in quot. 1502 at sense A. 3a, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin sensualis relating to the senses (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), material (4th cent.), intellectual (5th cent.), perceptible by the senses, concerned with the gratification of the senses (13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin sensus sense n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier sensuality n.Compare Catalan sensual (14th cent.), Spanish sensual (second half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese sensual (15th cent.), Italian sensuale (early 14th cent.). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin sensualis sensual person, sensualia (neuter plural) sensual things (both 12th cent. in a British source).

A. adj.

a. Involving gratification of the senses; of, relating to, or arising from physical (esp. sexual) urges or desires and not the intellect or spirit; carnal, fleshly, base.Chiefly with pejorative connotation. Now only as a contextual use of sense A. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective]

sensual?a1425

Venerian1448

venereal?a1475

venerial1531

venereous1542

venerious1542

venerous1562

Venerean1575

veneral1591

warm1593

fantastical1594

sexual1839

thermal1866

satyrish1876

Wife of Bath1926

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene

lewdc1386

filthy?c1400

knavishc1405

sensual?a1425

ribaldousc1440

dishonestc1450

bawdya1513

ribald?a1513

ribaldious?1518

slovenly?1518

ribaldry1519

priapish1531

ribaldish?1533

filthous1551

ribaldly1570

obscene1571

bawdisha1586

obscenous1591

greasy1598

dirty1599

fulsome1600

spurcitious1658

lasciviating1660

smutty1668

bawdry1764

ribaldric1796

un-Quakerlike1824

fat1836

ithyphallic1856

hot1892

rorty1898

rude1919

bitchy1928

feelthy1930

raunchy1943

ranchy1959

down and dirty1969

steamy1970

sleazo1972

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 350 (MED) He wiþdrawiþ fro hem propre sensual loue & bigynneþ to loue hem þat ben goostly oonli.

1478 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1478 §34. m. 2 Persones not dredyng God,..but enclyned of sensuall appetite.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxxii. f. lxvii^v He was gyuen to all sensuall luste of his body.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) cclxi. 3 See thou kepe thee free From the foule yoke of sensuall bondage.

1637 J. Milton Comus 4 They..All their friends; and native home forget To roule with pleasure in a sensuall stie.

1645 H. Hammond Of Sinnes 13 From whence..sinne is brought forth, that very consent of the will to the sensuall faculty, being formally sinne without, or before the acting of it.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xvii. 115 Intervals of Spleen; for relief of which he is driven into sensual excesses.

1789 L. L. Lord Walford II. lvi. 181 He knew, that, after he had gratified his sensual desires, his suit to Lucy would be treated not only with indifference, but that he should be hated and abhorred.

1851 J. R. Morell tr. C. Fourier Passions Human Soul II. 329 Apicius and Messalina will be esteemed because their sensual phrenzy will turn to the account of all.

1882 Literary Churchman 3 Mar. 96/2 In Herod—loathsome sin, sensual brutality, loathsome blasphemy.

1917 Amer. Med. July 500/1 For the degenerate sensualist,..any impediment to sensual indulgence, such as impotency, is the greatest calamity of his life.

b. In more neutral sense: relating to, characterized by, or involving enjoyment derived from the senses; physically enjoyable or pleasurable.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > received through the senses (of pleasure)

sensualc1443

sensuous1821

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 145 (MED) Folewyng greet joie and delijt in wil, we schulen haue grete sensual delite and sport in oure outward and inward sensitive wittis.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 91 (MED) Supernatural ioies in þe bodies side ben þese: passing fairnes..passing sensual delectacioun þoruȝ al oure inwarde and outwarde sensitive wittis.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. G.iv^v Clowtyd crayme..is eaten more for a sensuall apetyde, than for any good nowrysshement.

1621 G. Wither Motto sig. D8^v I care not for his loue. My dogge doth so; He loues, as farre as sensuall loue can go.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 239 Some unassayed sensual sweetnesse.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xii. 242 This kind of Entertainment [sc. opera] being so intirely sensual, it had no Possibility of getting the better of our Reason, but by its Novelty.

a1799 D. Simpson Plea for Relig. (1803) 195 The Gospel..allows every sensual enjoyment that is consistent with the real good..of man.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 5 My father walked up and down the room with impatience, because he was kept from his dinner, and, like all orthodox divines, he was tenacious of the only sensual enjoyment permitted to his cloth.

1863 Continental Monthly Oct. 412/1 The material and palpable part of nature which may be calculated, percented, turned into gold, or made to minister to sensual pleasures.

1916 Musical Q. 2 548 Every really great work of art is inevitably the product in the first place of the will for human welfare, and only in the second an expression of sensual enjoyment.

1968 Jrnl. Human Health & Social Behavior 9 156 A prominent value tension within the hippie subculture between contemplative, inwardly-directed forms of ‘mind-expansion’ and more hedonistically oriented forms of sensual excess.

2002 J. Harris & F. Warde French Kitchen 11/2 Food is a sensual, whole-body experience.

a. Of, relating to, or concerned with the senses or sensation; sensory.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective] > of or relating to physical sensation

animala1400

sensible?a1425

sensualc1429

sensitive1502

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sensatory1720

sensorial1742

aesthetic1798

sensational1807

sensatorial1847

perceptual1878

psychosensory1881

aesthesic1898

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3366 So kept he the seints in helle without payne sensuel felyng.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 226 Thryes I tempte hym be ryth sotylle instawnce Aftyr he fast fourty days ageyns sensual myth or reson.

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) i. sig. A*.ii^v Where through I myghte lese my sensual intellygence, for he that procureth for to knowe ouermoche..is in daunger for to be extraught from hymself [etc.].

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFii^v The beestes..be made tame..: that is to say, the sensuall powers of man or woman, whiche by synne, euer rebelled..be made obedient to the spirit.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. x. 80 Man doth seeke a triple perfection, first, a sensuall,..then an intellectuall..lastly a spirituall & diuine.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) 229 Raging Mastives who if they were loosed, one at another, they would fight till death, whereas in presence of the Bull..they..both, eyther by sensuall consent or naturall instinct, unite themselves in one to assault their common adversary.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. lxxiii. 61 Let not Dust blinde my sensual Eyes, When as my Spirits Energie transcends the Skies.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) i. 200 Far as Creation's ample Range extends, The Scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 11 Synonymous with the word idea, we shall sometimes use the words sensual motion in contradistinction to muscular motion.

1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 81 But still the wall impassable Bars us around with sensual bond.

1881 Nature 1 Sept. 414/1 The process of scientific investigation includes a great variety of operations, which may be considered under three headings, mental, sensual, and physical.

1933 M. Oakeshott Experience (2002) ii. i. 12 Sensation is not thought, thought is not sensation, and both are forms of experience. And examples of what is meant by this purely sensual experience are ready to hand.

1964 J. A. M. Meerloo Hidden Communion i. 4 Several attempts have been made to explain such mysteries of sensual perception and communication as, for instance, the migration of birds.

2015 P. V. Zima Subjectivity & Identity ii. 68 In the Meditations, bodies are considered exclusively as objects of thought, not of sensual perception.

b. That may be sensed; perceptible by the senses; material.Sometimes coloured by sense A. 1.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective]

sensiblea1398

feelablec1443

perceivablec1475

sensual1529

passible1558

perceptible1567

sensitive1577

distinguishable1611

discernable1627

discernible1633

perceptive1740

appreciable?1775

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xvi. f. xcv^v Somtyme as god, somtyme as man,..somtyme as in the person of hys sensuall partyes of hys owne body, otherwhyle in the persone of some partyculare parte of hys body mystycal.

1619 S. Norris Antidote Pestiferous Writings: 2nd Pt. iv. xviii. 30 The whole nature of man is a certayne seed of sinne; whereby not the flesh or sensuall parts alone, but the very soule is so corrupted.

1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xxiv. 819 The Confession, that a great many of you make to God, in publick especially, while their Thoughts are wandring, their Eyes staring upon sensual Objects.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 174 A man born deaf, must necessarily be dumb; and his whole sphere of knowledge must be bounded only by sensual objects.

1850 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow (rev. ed.) in Poems I. 255 But, weights and shows of sensual things Too closely crossing him, On his soul's eyelid, the pressure slid, And made its vision dim.

1885 Our Corner July 21 She seeks continually to elevate the mind above sensual objects.

1939 Speculum 14 459 His Law is limited to sensual things; to physical rewards and punishments.

1985 Art Jrnl. 45 152/1 The physical, sensual object or construction is therefore spiritualized.

2010 I. Theodor Exploring Bhagavad Gitā v. 55 The external world of sensual objects cannot compare to the richer inner world.

3. Of a person or a person's temperament, behaviour, etc.

a. Given or devoted to the pursuit of physical pleasures or the gratification of the senses, spec. with regard to sexual activity or to food and drink.Originally with pejorative connotation (cf. sense A. 1a). Now usually in more neutral use, and sometimes with positive connotation of sexual attractiveness (cf. sense A. 3d).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective]

sensible?a1425

voluptuousc1440

sensual1502

epicurish1548

epicurious1553

epicureala1555

epicurean1583

volupt1585

flesh-pleasing1647

sensuistic1839

sensuous1858

apolaustic1871

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. x. sig. l.v^v All dysordynaunce sensuall [Fr. toute desordenance sensuele] touchynge the synne of lecherye.

1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde ii. ii. 448 To carry about strange and outlandish smels..or to be delighted with them..is the property of lasciuious & sensuall men.

a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 65 Don Roderigo..began to repent him of his sensuall life.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxxvi. 118 These Wasps in a Hony-Pot are so many Sensual Men that are Plung'd in their Lusts and Pleasures.

1694 F. Atterbury Scorner Incapable of Wisdom 14 The Sensual Man, is, of all men living, the most Improper for inquiries after Truth.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋5 Were any one to see Mariamne dance, let him be never so sensual a Brute, I defie him to entertain any Thoughts but of the highest Respect and Esteem towards her.

1794 J. Hare Ess. Necessity Revealed Relig. 15 Those sensual and lascivious deities, Bacchus, Venus, and Cotys.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 60 Sensual, and vile; Dead to all love.

1870 H. Smart Race for Wife i. 6 By nature coarse and sensual in his habits.

1919 S. Tremayne Echo ii. xxiv. 164 She..appeared as a voluptuary, a fascinating but almost grossly sensual woman, whose every movement and word were calculated all too obviously to stir the senses of men.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 278 Sensual and elegant though Gerald was, he detested the flashy smartness of such Latin womanizers.

2007 S. McCleave in L. Brooks Women's Work vi. 164 Contemporaries viewed Sallé as a highly sensual woman. Her dancing was termed ‘ravishing’.

†b. Obstinate, self-willed. Obsolete.

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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > wilful

onwileOE

wilfulc1200

willesfulc1225

headstronga1398

wilsomea1400

headya1425

overthrowing?a1425

self-willya1425

self-willedc1450

sensual1524

wayward1528

headish1530

affectionate1534

self-will1562

strongheaded1579

hard-mouthed1610

brag-brained1648

self-wilful1648

overwilled1650

will-strong1654

cobby1785

willyart1791

brain-strong1863

1524 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 198 The realme of Scotland, by taking sensuall and wilfull waies, shal soner chose to lyve in warre trouble inquietnes and adversite, than to florishe in joye [etc.].

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxj Yf any lawe or reason coulde haue remoued you from your sensuall opinions, ye have ben many and often tymes sufficientely aunswered to the same.

1584 W. Cecil in J. Strype Life J. Whitgift (1718) App. iii. 64 I favour no sensual & wilful Recusants.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xi. 101 The breeding of most Kings hath bin ever sensual and most humour'd.

1669 E. Reynolds Annot. Ecclesiastes (v. 15) 336 Mind Princes of their duty, that they be not wilful, sensual, tyrannous, but that they manage their office with noblenesse of spirit.

c. Absorbed or engrossed in material or temporal matters to the exclusion of intellectual and spiritual interests; worldly. In early use chiefly in religious contexts.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective]

worldlyOE

dryc1175

fleshlyc1175

of the world?c1225

secularc1290

timely1340

of hencec1384

uttermore1395

worldisha1400

profane1474

humanc1475

mundanec1475

mundial1499

carnal?1510

seculary1520

unghostly1526

worldly-minded1528

sensual1529

earthly-minded1535

civil1536

subcelestial1561

worldly-witted1563

secular-minded1597

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lay1609

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non-ecclesiastical1630

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secularized1683

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choical1708

Sadducee1746

gay1798

unspiritualized1816

secularizing1825

unreligious1832

secularistic1862

apneumatic1864

Sadduceeic1875

this-worldly1883

this world1889

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > absorbed in sensual matters

fleshly-minded1528

carnal-minded1664

sensuala1676

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. f. C.vii^v/1 But now y^e chyefteyns of these execrable heresyes both teche and vse more sensuall and lycentious lyuing than euer dyd Machomet.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Jude 19 These are they which segregate themselues, sensual, hauing not the Spirit.

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 95 As some sensuall spirits amongst vs..Which hold the world to come, a faigned stage.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. v. 12 [He trusts] the Senat willingly with the revenge of any injury he can receive, when sensual men are very loath to remit the like into the hands of God.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. v. 333 Sensual Men are not willing to believe any thing whereby they have not a sufficient Evidence, as they think, to their Sense.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 178. ⁋11 The gratifications of the palate; an entertainment so far removed from intellectual happiness, that scarcely the most shameless of the sensual herd have dared to defend it.

1799 C. W. Leadbeater in tr. E. Swedenborg Summary Expos. Prophets & Psalms David 18 By Natural Men our Author does not mean Sensual Men, or Men totally unregenerate, but such as are receptive of the lowest Order of Good and Truth from the Lord.

1840 New Jerusalem Mag. Jan. 186 They were merely sensual men. They therefore saw only the external of things.

1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 230 But this whole drama..may be best described as the theatre of the homme sensuel moyen, the average sensual man,..whose city is Paris, and whose ideal is the free, gay, pleasurable life of Paris.

1905 Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/2 The sensual earth-man must be killed, beyond all chances of reviving, before the man after the divine pattern and will can live.

1985 Harp 1 40/1 It is the battle of the rational man versus the sensual man.

2013 P. Dailey Promised Bodies i. 37 What Augustine calls the ‘outer man’ (or the sensual man).

d. Of facial features: believed to indicate a pleasure-loving nature; spec. (of the lips) thick and full, pouty.Sometimes with admixture of sense A. 1b.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > indicative of sensual disposition

sensual1833

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]

flatc1400

hardc1400

low-cheeredc1400

large?a1425

ruscledc1440

well-visagedc1440

platter-faced1533

well-faced1534

full-faced1543

fair-faced1553

bright-faceda1560

crab-faced1563

crab-snouted1563

crab-tree-faced1563

long-visaged1584

owlya1586

wainscot-faced1588

flaberkin1592

rough-hewn1593

angel-faced1594

round-faced1594

crab-favoured1596

rugged1596

weasel-faced1596

rough-faced1598

half-faced1600

chitty1601

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lean-faceda1616

old-faceda1616

moon-faced1619

monkey-faced1620

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chitty-faceda1627

lean-chapt1629

antic-faced1635

bloat-faced1638

bacon-facea1640

blue-faced1640

hatchet-faced1648

grave1650

lean-jawed1679

smock-faced1684

lean-visaged1686

flaber1687

baby-faced1692

splatter-faced1707

chubby1722

puggy1722

block-faced1751

haggard-looking1756

long-faced1762

haggardly1763

fresh-faced1766

dough-faced1773

pudding-faced1777

baby-featured1780

fat-faced1782

haggard1787

weazen-face1794

keen1798

ferret-like1801

lean-cheeked1812

mulberry-faced1812

open-faced1813

open-countenanced1819

chiselled1821

hatchety1821

misfeatured1822

terse1824

weazen-faced1824

mahogany-faced1825

clock-faced1827

sharp1832

sensual1833

beef-faced1838

weaselly1838

ferret-faced1840

sensuous1843

rat-faced1844

recedent1849

neat-faced1850

cherubimical1854

pinch-faced1859

cherubic1860

frownya1861

receding1866

weak1882

misfeaturing1885

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platyopic1885

pro-opic1885

wind-splitting1890

falcon-face1891

blunt-featured1916

bun-faced1927

fish-faced1963

1833 Royal Lady's Mag. Jan. 25/1 Contempt curled the corners of his thick sensual lips.

1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 170 A tallowy sensual face.

1905 R. Bagot Passport xxv. 268 The full mouth, with the sensual lips.

1976 C. Holland Floating Worlds (1977) 469 It was not a sensual face: sexlessly beautiful.

2008 S. Montefiore French Gardener xxxii. 359 Her short upper lip and her large, sensual mouth that smiled so easily and with such charm.

†4. Of a living being: endowed with the faculty of sensation but lacking the power of reason. Obsolete except as merged with sense A. 3a.Often as part of a figure of speech likening a person to an animal.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective] > without reason

sensitivea1500

sensual1530

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. vii. sig. f3^v A soule sensytiue whyche is in euery brute sensuall best.

1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. ii. 34 Some of thes [philosophers] were vtterly vnlearned, and rather sensual beastes then reasonable men.

1630 W. Vaughan Newlanders Cure i. 53 Hee shall soone perceiue himselfe metamorphozed and changed of a sensuall Creature to bee a man of Reason.

1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David xlix. 97 As like a sensual Beast he lives, So like a Beast he dies.

1714 E. Hawarden True Church of Christ I. i. iv. §iii. 113 The Montanists call'd those in her Communion, ψυχικοὺς, sensual Animals, because they would not hear Montanus.

1789 W. H. Hall Death of Cain iii. 72 Where they [sc. the faculties] continue shut, he is no better than a sensual animal.

a. Of an opinion or idea: arising from material rather than intellectual or spiritual considerations; materialistic.

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the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [adjective] > psychical or of the lower soul or not spiritual

animala1400

sensual?1532

soulish?1555

souly1616

psychical1702

soulical1828

psychic1858

?1532 J. G. tr. Myrrour or Lokynge Glasse of Lyfe vii. sig. f.i When one preferryth this saynt, & another that saynt, and one this pylgrymage, or ymage, and another that pylgrymage & ymage suerly these sensuall opynyons rather dyspleaseth saynts, then pleaseth them.

1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 77 Aristotles sensuall naturall philosophie, in his 3. bookes de anima.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 285 This your needlesse fantasticall doubt concerning miraculous actions (the same arising as it doth, from one onely sensuall view of some externall difference in the doing of those selfesame miraculous actions).

1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 48 Austin told his friend Alipius, and Nebridius, that Epicurus his sensuall doctrine had with him carried away the garland from all Philosophers and Divines.

1708 T. Morer Serm. Several Occasions 27 There is nothing better then that a Man should rejoice in his own Works i. e. eat, drink and enjoy the Good of all his Labour... A very sensual doctrine.

1792 R. Taprell Lect. Lord's Prayer ii. 30 Our Father is in Heaven, and therefore his children should abhor every earthly and sensual idea, which offers to attach itself to their apprehensions of Him.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xv. 329 Moses..only accommodated such figurative expressions to the sensual comprehensions of his tribes.

1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 67 He gives his own views of the common sensual idea of heaven.

1926 H. Sutherland tr. M. A. Palacios Islam & Divine Comedy ii. viii. 137 The mystics..contributed to the gradual elimination of the sensual conception of paradise by giving its material delights a mystical or allegorical meaning.

1958 L. J. Rather tr. R. Virchow Dis., Life, & Man 41 When man speculates about the original source of movement he is unable to transcend the sensual notion of opposing polarities.

2011 L. S. Chapp God of Covenant & Creation i. 28 Many educated people reject the Aristotelian-Thomistic notion of intelligible form because they mistake it for the sensual notion of shape.

b. Philosophy. = sensational adj. 1. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of perception > relating to sensualism

sensational1801

sensualistic1828

sensual1829

sensualist1839

sensationalist1846

sensationalistic1846

sensist1850

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1829 Foreign Q. Rev. 4 65 Upon the sensual system, it is impossible to account for the powers of imagination and generalization, without admitting a certain activity in the mind.

1869 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 184 The sensual philosophy of Locke..was in fashion among scholars and men of speculative minds.

1917 G. P. Curtis Interdependence of Lit. 143 John Locke, whose teachings were closely allied to the sensual philosophy of the French.

1998 in E. L. Haralson Encycl. Amer. Poetry: 19th Cent. 11/1 Alcott..discarded the sensual philosophy of Aristotle, Francis Bacon, and John Locke.

B. n.

†1. A being that is capable of sensation but lacks the power of reason. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > animal nature of man > [noun] > brutes

sensual1605

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Ded. 2 The souls of men and angels are reasonable;..and the sensuals (as beasts and such like) not so.

1657 J. Humphryes Βίος Πάντῶν Ὲιδέοτος 19 We shall live in our Nature as Beasts, as meer sensuals in theirs.

2. With the and plural agreement: sensual people collectively. Also as a count noun: a sensual person.

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1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. 153 The sensuall are all for their sences, but this is peculiar to good men alone.

1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory i. 268 If all the derision used by Elijah and the Prophets against the Heathenish Idolatry, be due, is not as much due against the Idolatry of all the sensual?

1714 M. Henry Pleasantness Relig. Life iv. 92 What senseless Creatures are the sensual, that will not be perswaded to quit the Pleasures of Brutes, when they shall have in Exchange the Delights of Angels.

1765 W. Brimble Poems 103 Let sensuals boast their transcient bliss.

1821 Q. Christian Spectator Nov. 567/1 The sensual, who in this life are receiving their good things.

1880 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 460 The sensual who know the law of the Creator and do it not.

1936 Ann. Rep. Dante Soc. Nos. 52–54. 3 The company of repentant sensuals, who have slackened their speed to go along with Dante, turn their faces away.

2012 W. McCuaig tr. G. Paleotti Disc. Sacred & Profane Images ii. lii. 313 We call sensuals those who principally embrace things of the senses and halt there.

3. In plural. The sensual faculties and appetites. Now rare.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > faculty of sensation > the senses > as channels for gratifying desire

senses?1530

sensuals1641

1641 J. Short Soliloquies Theologicall 68 Nay where, in whom, when all ill sensuals meet, Hath Christ so cast in's heart that He can turn To wine His water, His bitter into sweet.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Hants. 8 His Intellectuals had such predominancy of his Sensuals,..that the Man in him being subordinate to the Christian, he lived a pattern of Piety.

1797 tr. E. Swedenborg Indexes to Apocalypse Revealed i. 89 Teeth sign[ify] sensuals, which are the ultimates of the natural mind.

1821 W. Liddle Poems 160 Rob's sensuals got a little whetted.

1898 Macon (Georgia) Tel. 25 Dec. 4/1 Joy should be unconfined—rational joy of head and heart, not of the sensuals.

1955 Poetry May 97 Waeker [sic] in his sensuals.

†4. In plural. Objects perceptible by the senses; material things. Obsolete except as merged in sense B. 5.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [noun] > the objects of sense

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sensuals1641

1641 H. Woodward Gate to Sci. Pref. sig. H5 This I suppose was your scope when you enjoyned me this taske, speaking to mee of sensuals..speaking to me of singulars.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 375 The objects, means, and occasions of our fears in relation to sensuals, are ever more and greater than the objects of our hopes.

1750 J. Marchant tr. E. Swedenborg Arcana Cælestia 11 Man..will not believe otherwise of those Things [of the other Life, and of many Secrets of Faith] than by those which are in the World, nay, than what he can apprehend by Sensuals.

5. With the. That which is sensual (chiefly in sense A. 1b). Also occasionally as a count noun: a sensual quality, attribute, etc.

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1833 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 381 Imagination..casts its spell upon us, till the deformed seems beautiful, and the sensual is clothed with the ideal.

1876 Mind 1 184 In comparing the sensual, the aesthetic, and the intellectual, our faculty of discrimination and valuation is non-plussed.

1926 B. C. Williams in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 p. xxiv The neurotic hallucination that only the ugly and the sensual are true.

1977 J. R. Powers Unoriginal Sinner & Ice-Cream God xiv. 86 I hadn't noticed in the bakery that she had such a sensual voice, probably because I was too busy noticing her other sensuals.

2007 Church Times 16 Mar. 25/1 The Christian tradition..has always had trouble distinguishing the sensual from the sensuous.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sensual
释义	sensualadj.n. Brit. /ˈsɛnsjʊəl/, /ˈsɛnsjᵿl/, /ˈsɛnʃʊəl/, /ˈsɛnʃ(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəl/ Forms: late Middle English sensuale, late Middle English sensuel, late Middle English sensuele, late Middle English sensuell, late Middle English–1600s sensuall, late Middle English– sensual, 1500s censuall, 1500s censuell, 1500s–1600s censual; also Scottish pre-1700 sencewall, pre-1700 sensuale, pre-1700 sinsuall. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French sensuel; Latin sensualis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French sensuel (French sensuel ) physically enjoyable or pleasurable (c1370), (chiefly with negative connotation) involving gratification of the senses, carnal, fleshly (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier), of, relating to, or concerned with the senses or sensation (a1430), given to the gratification of the senses (1485 in the passage translated in quot. 1502 at sense A. 3a, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin sensualis relating to the senses (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), material (4th cent.), intellectual (5th cent.), perceptible by the senses, concerned with the gratification of the senses (13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin sensus sense n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier sensuality n.Compare Catalan sensual (14th cent.), Spanish sensual (second half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese sensual (15th cent.), Italian sensuale (early 14th cent.). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin sensualis sensual person, sensualia (neuter plural) sensual things (both 12th cent. in a British source). A. adj. 1. a. Involving gratification of the senses; of, relating to, or arising from physical (esp. sexual) urges or desires and not the intellect or spirit; carnal, fleshly, base.Chiefly with pejorative connotation. Now only as a contextual use of sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] sensual?a1425 Venerian1448 venereal?a1475 venerial1531 venereous1542 venerious1542 venerous1562 Venerean1575 veneral1591 warm1593 fantastical1594 sexual1839 thermal1866 satyrish1876 Wife of Bath1926 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene lewdc1386 filthy?c1400 knavishc1405 sensual?a1425 ribaldousc1440 dishonestc1450 bawdya1513 ribald?a1513 ribaldious?1518 slovenly?1518 ribaldry1519 priapish1531 ribaldish?1533 filthous1551 ribaldly1570 obscene1571 bawdisha1586 obscenous1591 greasy1598 dirty1599 fulsome1600 spurcitious1658 lasciviating1660 smutty1668 bawdry1764 ribaldric1796 un-Quakerlike1824 fat1836 ithyphallic1856 hot1892 rorty1898 rude1919 bitchy1928 feelthy1930 raunchy1943 ranchy1959 down and dirty1969 steamy1970 sleazo1972 ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 350 (MED) He wiþdrawiþ fro hem propre sensual loue & bigynneþ to loue hem þat ben goostly oonli. 1478 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1478 §34. m. 2 Persones not dredyng God,..but enclyned of sensuall appetite. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxxii. f. lxvii^v He was gyuen to all sensuall luste of his body. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) cclxi. 3 See thou kepe thee free From the foule yoke of sensuall bondage. 1637 J. Milton Comus 4 They..All their friends; and native home forget To roule with pleasure in a sensuall stie. 1645 H. Hammond Of Sinnes 13 From whence..sinne is brought forth, that very consent of the will to the sensuall faculty, being formally sinne without, or before the acting of it. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xvii. 115 Intervals of Spleen; for relief of which he is driven into sensual excesses. 1789 L. L. Lord Walford II. lvi. 181 He knew, that, after he had gratified his sensual desires, his suit to Lucy would be treated not only with indifference, but that he should be hated and abhorred. 1851 J. R. Morell tr. C. Fourier Passions Human Soul II. 329 Apicius and Messalina will be esteemed because their sensual phrenzy will turn to the account of all. 1882 Literary Churchman 3 Mar. 96/2 In Herod—loathsome sin, sensual brutality, loathsome blasphemy. 1917 Amer. Med. July 500/1 For the degenerate sensualist,..any impediment to sensual indulgence, such as impotency, is the greatest calamity of his life. b. In more neutral sense: relating to, characterized by, or involving enjoyment derived from the senses; physically enjoyable or pleasurable. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > received through the senses (of pleasure) sensualc1443 sensuous1821 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 145 (MED) Folewyng greet joie and delijt in wil, we schulen haue grete sensual delite and sport in oure outward and inward sensitive wittis. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 91 (MED) Supernatural ioies in þe bodies side ben þese: passing fairnes..passing sensual delectacioun þoruȝ al oure inwarde and outwarde sensitive wittis. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. G.iv^v Clowtyd crayme..is eaten more for a sensuall apetyde, than for any good nowrysshement. 1621 G. Wither Motto sig. D8^v I care not for his loue. My dogge doth so; He loues, as farre as sensuall loue can go. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 239 Some unassayed sensual sweetnesse. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xii. 242 This kind of Entertainment [sc. opera] being so intirely sensual, it had no Possibility of getting the better of our Reason, but by its Novelty. a1799 D. Simpson Plea for Relig. (1803) 195 The Gospel..allows every sensual enjoyment that is consistent with the real good..of man. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 5 My father walked up and down the room with impatience, because he was kept from his dinner, and, like all orthodox divines, he was tenacious of the only sensual enjoyment permitted to his cloth. 1863 Continental Monthly Oct. 412/1 The material and palpable part of nature which may be calculated, percented, turned into gold, or made to minister to sensual pleasures. 1916 Musical Q. 2 548 Every really great work of art is inevitably the product in the first place of the will for human welfare, and only in the second an expression of sensual enjoyment. 1968 Jrnl. Human Health & Social Behavior 9 156 A prominent value tension within the hippie subculture between contemplative, inwardly-directed forms of ‘mind-expansion’ and more hedonistically oriented forms of sensual excess. 2002 J. Harris & F. Warde French Kitchen 11/2 Food is a sensual, whole-body experience. 2. a. Of, relating to, or concerned with the senses or sensation; sensory. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective] > of or relating to physical sensation animala1400 sensible?a1425 sensualc1429 sensitive1502 sensate1677 sensatory1720 sensorial1742 aesthetic1798 sensational1807 sensatorial1847 perceptual1878 psychosensory1881 aesthesic1898 c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3366 So kept he the seints in helle without payne sensuel felyng. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 226 Thryes I tempte hym be ryth sotylle instawnce Aftyr he fast fourty days ageyns sensual myth or reson. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) i. sig. A.ii^v Where through I myghte lese my sensual intellygence, for he that procureth for to knowe ouermoche..is in daunger for to be extraught from hymself [etc.]. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection* iii. sig. FFFii^v The beestes..be made tame..: that is to say, the sensuall powers of man or woman, whiche by synne, euer rebelled..be made obedient to the spirit. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. x. 80 Man doth seeke a triple perfection, first, a sensuall,..then an intellectuall..lastly a spirituall & diuine. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) 229 Raging Mastives who if they were loosed, one at another, they would fight till death, whereas in presence of the Bull..they..both, eyther by sensuall consent or naturall instinct, unite themselves in one to assault their common adversary. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. lxxiii. 61 Let not Dust blinde my sensual Eyes, When as my Spirits Energie transcends the Skies. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) i. 200 Far as Creation's ample Range extends, The Scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends. 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 11 Synonymous with the word idea, we shall sometimes use the words sensual motion in contradistinction to muscular motion. 1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 81 But still the wall impassable Bars us around with sensual bond. 1881 Nature 1 Sept. 414/1 The process of scientific investigation includes a great variety of operations, which may be considered under three headings, mental, sensual, and physical. 1933 M. Oakeshott Experience (2002) ii. i. 12 Sensation is not thought, thought is not sensation, and both are forms of experience. And examples of what is meant by this purely sensual experience are ready to hand. 1964 J. A. M. Meerloo Hidden Communion i. 4 Several attempts have been made to explain such mysteries of sensual perception and communication as, for instance, the migration of birds. 2015 P. V. Zima Subjectivity & Identity ii. 68 In the Meditations, bodies are considered exclusively as objects of thought, not of sensual perception. b. That may be sensed; perceptible by the senses; material.Sometimes coloured by sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] sensiblea1398 feelablec1443 perceivablec1475 sensual1529 passible1558 perceptible1567 sensitive1577 distinguishable1611 discernable1627 discernible1633 perceptive1740 appreciable?1775 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xvi. f. xcv^v Somtyme as god, somtyme as man,..somtyme as in the person of hys sensuall partyes of hys owne body, otherwhyle in the persone of some partyculare parte of hys body mystycal. 1619 S. Norris Antidote Pestiferous Writings: 2nd Pt. iv. xviii. 30 The whole nature of man is a certayne seed of sinne; whereby not the flesh or sensuall parts alone, but the very soule is so corrupted. 1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xxiv. 819 The Confession, that a great many of you make to God, in publick especially, while their Thoughts are wandring, their Eyes staring upon sensual Objects. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 174 A man born deaf, must necessarily be dumb; and his whole sphere of knowledge must be bounded only by sensual objects. 1850 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow (rev. ed.) in Poems I. 255 But, weights and shows of sensual things Too closely crossing him, On his soul's eyelid, the pressure slid, And made its vision dim. 1885 Our Corner July 21 She seeks continually to elevate the mind above sensual objects. 1939 Speculum 14 459 His Law is limited to sensual things; to physical rewards and punishments. 1985 Art Jrnl. 45 152/1 The physical, sensual object or construction is therefore spiritualized. 2010 I. Theodor Exploring Bhagavad Gitā v. 55 The external world of sensual objects cannot compare to the richer inner world. 3. Of a person or a person's temperament, behaviour, etc. a. Given or devoted to the pursuit of physical pleasures or the gratification of the senses, spec. with regard to sexual activity or to food and drink.Originally with pejorative connotation (cf. sense A. 1a). Now usually in more neutral use, and sometimes with positive connotation of sexual attractiveness (cf. sense A. 3d). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] sensible?a1425 voluptuousc1440 sensual1502 epicurish1548 epicurious1553 epicureala1555 epicurean1583 volupt1585 flesh-pleasing1647 sensuistic1839 sensuous1858 apolaustic1871 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. x. sig. l.v^v All dysordynaunce sensuall [Fr. toute desordenance sensuele] touchynge the synne of lecherye. 1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde ii. ii. 448 To carry about strange and outlandish smels..or to be delighted with them..is the property of lasciuious & sensuall men. a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 65 Don Roderigo..began to repent him of his sensuall life. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxxvi. 118 These Wasps in a Hony-Pot are so many Sensual Men that are Plung'd in their Lusts and Pleasures. 1694 F. Atterbury Scorner Incapable of Wisdom 14 The Sensual Man, is, of all men living, the most Improper for inquiries after Truth. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋5 Were any one to see Mariamne dance, let him be never so sensual a Brute, I defie him to entertain any Thoughts but of the highest Respect and Esteem towards her. 1794 J. Hare Ess. Necessity Revealed Relig. 15 Those sensual and lascivious deities, Bacchus, Venus, and Cotys. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 60 Sensual, and vile; Dead to all love. 1870 H. Smart Race for Wife i. 6 By nature coarse and sensual in his habits. 1919 S. Tremayne Echo ii. xxiv. 164 She..appeared as a voluptuary, a fascinating but almost grossly sensual woman, whose every movement and word were calculated all too obviously to stir the senses of men. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 278 Sensual and elegant though Gerald was, he detested the flashy smartness of such Latin womanizers. 2007 S. McCleave in L. Brooks Women's Work vi. 164 Contemporaries viewed Sallé as a highly sensual woman. Her dancing was termed ‘ravishing’. †b. Obstinate, self-willed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > wilful onwileOE wilfulc1200 willesfulc1225 headstronga1398 wilsomea1400 headya1425 overthrowing?a1425 self-willya1425 self-willedc1450 sensual1524 wayward1528 headish1530 affectionate1534 self-will1562 strongheaded1579 hard-mouthed1610 brag-brained1648 self-wilful1648 overwilled1650 will-strong1654 cobby1785 willyart1791 brain-strong1863 1524 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 198 The realme of Scotland, by taking sensuall and wilfull waies, shal soner chose to lyve in warre trouble inquietnes and adversite, than to florishe in joye [etc.]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxj Yf any lawe or reason coulde haue remoued you from your sensuall opinions, ye have ben many and often tymes sufficientely aunswered to the same. 1584 W. Cecil in J. Strype Life J. Whitgift (1718) App. iii. 64 I favour no sensual & wilful Recusants. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xi. 101 The breeding of most Kings hath bin ever sensual and most humour'd. 1669 E. Reynolds Annot. Ecclesiastes (v. 15) 336 Mind Princes of their duty, that they be not wilful, sensual, tyrannous, but that they manage their office with noblenesse of spirit. c. Absorbed or engrossed in material or temporal matters to the exclusion of intellectual and spiritual interests; worldly. In early use chiefly in religious contexts. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > absorbed in sensual matters fleshly-minded1528 carnal-minded1664 sensuala1676 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. f. C.vii^v/1 But now y^e chyefteyns of these execrable heresyes both teche and vse more sensuall and lycentious lyuing than euer dyd Machomet. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Jude 19 These are they which segregate themselues, sensual, hauing not the Spirit. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 95 As some sensuall spirits amongst vs..Which hold the world to come, a faigned stage. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. v. 12 [He trusts] the Senat willingly with the revenge of any injury he can receive, when sensual men are very loath to remit the like into the hands of God. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. v. 333 Sensual Men are not willing to believe any thing whereby they have not a sufficient Evidence, as they think, to their Sense. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 178. ⁋11 The gratifications of the palate; an entertainment so far removed from intellectual happiness, that scarcely the most shameless of the sensual herd have dared to defend it. 1799 C. W. Leadbeater in tr. E. Swedenborg Summary Expos. Prophets & Psalms David 18 By Natural Men our Author does not mean Sensual Men, or Men totally unregenerate, but such as are receptive of the lowest Order of Good and Truth from the Lord. 1840 New Jerusalem Mag. Jan. 186 They were merely sensual men. They therefore saw only the external of things. 1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 230 But this whole drama..may be best described as the theatre of the homme sensuel moyen, the average sensual man,..whose city is Paris, and whose ideal is the free, gay, pleasurable life of Paris. 1905 Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/2 The sensual earth-man must be killed, beyond all chances of reviving, before the man after the divine pattern and will can live. 1985 Harp 1 40/1 It is the battle of the rational man versus the sensual man. 2013 P. Dailey Promised Bodies i. 37 What Augustine calls the ‘outer man’ (or the sensual man). d. Of facial features: believed to indicate a pleasure-loving nature; spec. (of the lips) thick and full, pouty.Sometimes with admixture of sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > indicative of sensual disposition sensual1833 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1833 Royal Lady's Mag. Jan. 25/1 Contempt curled the corners of his thick sensual lips. 1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 170 A tallowy sensual face. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxv. 268 The full mouth, with the sensual lips. 1976 C. Holland Floating Worlds (1977) 469 It was not a sensual face: sexlessly beautiful. 2008 S. Montefiore French Gardener xxxii. 359 Her short upper lip and her large, sensual mouth that smiled so easily and with such charm. †4. Of a living being: endowed with the faculty of sensation but lacking the power of reason. Obsolete except as merged with sense A. 3a.Often as part of a figure of speech likening a person to an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective] > without reason sensitivea1500 sensual1530 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. vii. sig. f3^v A soule sensytiue whyche is in euery brute sensuall best. 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. ii. 34 Some of thes [philosophers] were vtterly vnlearned, and rather sensual beastes then reasonable men. 1630 W. Vaughan Newlanders Cure i. 53 Hee shall soone perceiue himselfe metamorphozed and changed of a sensuall Creature to bee a man of Reason. 1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David xlix. 97 As like a sensual Beast he lives, So like a Beast he dies. 1714 E. Hawarden True Church of Christ I. i. iv. §iii. 113 The Montanists call'd those in her Communion, ψυχικοὺς, sensual Animals, because they would not hear Montanus. 1789 W. H. Hall Death of Cain iii. 72 Where they [sc. the faculties] continue shut, he is no better than a sensual animal. 5. a. Of an opinion or idea: arising from material rather than intellectual or spiritual considerations; materialistic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [adjective] > psychical or of the lower soul or not spiritual animala1400 sensual?1532 soulish?1555 souly1616 psychical1702 soulical1828 psychic1858 ?1532 J. G. tr. Myrrour or Lokynge Glasse of Lyfe vii. sig. f.i When one preferryth this saynt, & another that saynt, and one this pylgrymage, or ymage, and another that pylgrymage & ymage suerly these sensuall opynyons rather dyspleaseth saynts, then pleaseth them. 1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 77 Aristotles sensuall naturall philosophie, in his 3. bookes de anima. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 285 This your needlesse fantasticall doubt concerning miraculous actions (the same arising as it doth, from one onely sensuall view of some externall difference in the doing of those selfesame miraculous actions). 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 48 Austin told his friend Alipius, and Nebridius, that Epicurus his sensuall doctrine had with him carried away the garland from all Philosophers and Divines. 1708 T. Morer Serm. Several Occasions 27 There is nothing better then that a Man should rejoice in his own Works i. e. eat, drink and enjoy the Good of all his Labour... A very sensual doctrine. 1792 R. Taprell Lect. Lord's Prayer ii. 30 Our Father is in Heaven, and therefore his children should abhor every earthly and sensual idea, which offers to attach itself to their apprehensions of Him. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xv. 329 Moses..only accommodated such figurative expressions to the sensual comprehensions of his tribes. 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 67 He gives his own views of the common sensual idea of heaven. 1926 H. Sutherland tr. M. A. Palacios Islam & Divine Comedy ii. viii. 137 The mystics..contributed to the gradual elimination of the sensual conception of paradise by giving its material delights a mystical or allegorical meaning. 1958 L. J. Rather tr. R. Virchow Dis., Life, & Man 41 When man speculates about the original source of movement he is unable to transcend the sensual notion of opposing polarities. 2011 L. S. Chapp God of Covenant & Creation i. 28 Many educated people reject the Aristotelian-Thomistic notion of intelligible form because they mistake it for the sensual notion of shape. b. Philosophy. = sensational adj. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of perception > relating to sensualism sensational1801 sensualistic1828 sensual1829 sensualist1839 sensationalist1846 sensationalistic1846 sensist1850 sensistic1856 sensationist1868 sensationistic1899 1829 Foreign Q. Rev. 4 65 Upon the sensual system, it is impossible to account for the powers of imagination and generalization, without admitting a certain activity in the mind. 1869 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 184 The sensual philosophy of Locke..was in fashion among scholars and men of speculative minds. 1917 G. P. Curtis Interdependence of Lit. 143 John Locke, whose teachings were closely allied to the sensual philosophy of the French. 1998 in E. L. Haralson Encycl. Amer. Poetry: 19th Cent. 11/1 Alcott..discarded the sensual philosophy of Aristotle, Francis Bacon, and John Locke. B. n. †1. A being that is capable of sensation but lacks the power of reason. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > animal nature of man > [noun] > brutes sensual1605 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Ded. 2 The souls of men and angels are reasonable;..and the sensuals (as beasts and such like) not so. 1657 J. Humphryes Βίος Πάντῶν Ὲιδέοτος 19 We shall live in our Nature as Beasts, as meer sensuals in theirs. 2. With the and plural agreement: sensual people collectively. Also as a count noun: a sensual person. ΚΠ 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. 153 The sensuall are all for their sences, but this is peculiar to good men alone. 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory i. 268 If all the derision used by Elijah and the Prophets against the Heathenish Idolatry, be due, is not as much due against the Idolatry of all the sensual? 1714 M. Henry Pleasantness Relig. Life iv. 92 What senseless Creatures are the sensual, that will not be perswaded to quit the Pleasures of Brutes, when they shall have in Exchange the Delights of Angels. 1765 W. Brimble Poems 103 Let sensuals boast their transcient bliss. 1821 Q. Christian Spectator Nov. 567/1 The sensual, who in this life are receiving their good things. 1880 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 460 The sensual who know the law of the Creator and do it not. 1936 Ann. Rep. Dante Soc. Nos. 52–54. 3 The company of repentant sensuals, who have slackened their speed to go along with Dante, turn their faces away. 2012 W. McCuaig tr. G. Paleotti Disc. Sacred & Profane Images ii. lii. 313 We call sensuals those who principally embrace things of the senses and halt there. 3. In plural. The sensual faculties and appetites. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > faculty of sensation > the senses > as channels for gratifying desire senses?1530 sensuals1641 1641 J. Short Soliloquies Theologicall 68 Nay where, in whom, when all ill sensuals meet, Hath Christ so cast in's heart that He can turn To wine His water, His bitter into sweet. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Hants. 8 His Intellectuals had such predominancy of his Sensuals,..that the Man in him being subordinate to the Christian, he lived a pattern of Piety. 1797 tr. E. Swedenborg Indexes to Apocalypse Revealed i. 89 Teeth sign[ify] sensuals, which are the ultimates of the natural mind. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 160 Rob's sensuals got a little whetted. 1898 Macon (Georgia) Tel. 25 Dec. 4/1 Joy should be unconfined—rational joy of head and heart, not of the sensuals. 1955 Poetry May 97 Waeker [sic] in his sensuals. †4. In plural. Objects perceptible by the senses; material things. Obsolete except as merged in sense B. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [noun] > the objects of sense objecta1398 sensuals1641 1641 H. Woodward Gate to Sci. Pref. sig. H5 This I suppose was your scope when you enjoyned me this taske, speaking to mee of sensuals..speaking to me of singulars. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 375 The objects, means, and occasions of our fears in relation to sensuals, are ever more and greater than the objects of our hopes. 1750 J. Marchant tr. E. Swedenborg Arcana Cælestia 11 Man..will not believe otherwise of those Things [of the other Life, and of many Secrets of Faith] than by those which are in the World, nay, than what he can apprehend by Sensuals. 5. With the. That which is sensual (chiefly in sense A. 1b). Also occasionally as a count noun: a sensual quality, attribute, etc. ΚΠ 1833 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 381 Imagination..casts its spell upon us, till the deformed seems beautiful, and the sensual is clothed with the ideal. 1876 Mind 1 184 In comparing the sensual, the aesthetic, and the intellectual, our faculty of discrimination and valuation is non-plussed. 1926 B. C. Williams in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 p. xxiv The neurotic hallucination that only the ugly and the sensual are true. 1977 J. R. Powers Unoriginal Sinner & Ice-Cream God xiv. 86 I hadn't noticed in the bakery that she had such a sensual voice, probably because I was too busy noticing her other sensuals. 2007 Church Times 16 Mar. 25/1 The Christian tradition..has always had trouble distinguishing the sensual from the sensuous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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