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SENSE, n. [from L. sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.] 1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the boky. Sense is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. 2. Sensation; perception by the senses. 3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment. 4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception. 5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason. Opprest nature sleeps; This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak. 6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden. 7. Opinion; notion; judgement. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. Roscommon. 8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness. 9. Moral perception. Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
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SENSE, n. [from L. sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.] 1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the boky. Sense is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. 2. Sensation; perception by the senses. 3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment. 4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception. 5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason. Opprest nature sleeps; This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak. 6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden. 7. Opinion; notion; judgement. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. Roscommon. 8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness. 9. Moral perception. Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. | SENSE, n. [sens; Fr. sens; It. senso; Sp. sentido; from L. sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive; W. syniaw, id.; syn, sense, feeling, perception; G. sinn, sense, mind, intention; D. zin; Sw. sinne; Dan. sind, sands.]- The faculty by which animals perceive external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the body.
Sense is a branch of perception. The five senses of animals are, 1. special, as smell, sight, hearing, tasting; 2. common, as feeling.
- Sensation; perception by the senses. – Bacon.
- Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment.
This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover … – Sidney.
- Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception. – Shak.
- Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason.
Opprest nature sleeps; / This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. – Shak.
- Reason; reasonable or rational meaning.
He raves; his words are loose / As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. – Dryden.
- Opinion; notion; judgment.
I speak my private but impartial sense / With freedom. – Roscommon.
- Consciousness; conviction; as, a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness.
- Moral perception.
Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. – L'Estrange.
- Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases. In interpretation, we are to examine whether words are to be understood in a literal or figurative sense. So we speak of a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, &c.
Common sense, that power of the mind which, by a kind of instinct, or a short process of reasoning, perceives truth, the relation of things, cause and effect, &c. and hence enables
the possessor to discern what is right, useful, expedient or proper, and adopt the best means to accomplish his purpose. This power seems to be the gift of nature, improved by experience and observation.
Moral sense, a determination of the mind to be pleased with the contemplation of those affections, actions or characters of rational agents, which are called good or virtuous. – Encyc.
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- A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving
external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs
(sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the
condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular,
and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
- To perceive by the senses] to recognize.
- Perception by the sensory organs of the
body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
- Perception through the intellect;
apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment;
appreciation.
- Sound perception and reasoning; correct
judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is
sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
- That which is felt or is held as a
sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
- Meaning; import; signification; as, the
true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a
remark.
- Moral perception or appreciation.
- One of two opposite
directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be
described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
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Sense SENSE, noun [from Latin sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.]
1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the body.
SENSE is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
2. Sensation; perception by the senses.
3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment.
4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception.
5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason.
Opprest nature sleeps;
This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak.
6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning.
He raves; his words are loose
As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden.
7. Opinion; notion; judgement.
I speak my private but impartial sense
With freedom. Roscommon.
8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness.
9. Moral perception.
Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
L'Estrange.
10. Meaning; important; signification; as the true sense of words or phrases. In interpretation, we are to examine whether words are to be understood in a literal or figurative sense. So we speak of a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, etc.
Common sense, that power of the mind which, by a kind of instinct, or a short process of reasoning, perceives truth, the relation of things, cause and effect, etc. and hence enables the possessor to discern what is right, useful, expedient, or proper, and adopt the best meams to accomplish his purpose. This power seems to be the gift of nature, improved by experience and observation.
Moral sense, a determination of the mind to be pleased with the contemplation of those effections, actions or characters of rational agents, which are called good or virtuous.
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