SENNIT, sen'it, _n._ a sort of flat, braided cordage.--Also SINN'ET.
SENOCULAR, s[=e]-nok'[=u]-lar, _adj._ having six eyes.
SENONIAN, s[=e]-n[=o]'ni-an, _n._ (_geol._) a division of the upper
Cretaceous in France and Belgium.
SEÑOR, se-ny[=o]r', _n._ a gentleman: in address, sir: as a title,
Mr:--_fem._ SEÑORA (se-ny[=o]'ra), a lady: in address, madam: as a title,
Mrs.--_n._ SEÑORITA (sen-y[=o]-r[=e]'ta), a young lady: in address, miss:
as a title, Miss. [Sp.]
SENS, sens, _adv._ (_Spens._) since.
SENSATION, sen-s[=a]'shun, _n._ perception by the senses: the change in
consciousness which results from the transmission of nervous impulses to
the brain, feeling excited by external objects, by the state of the body,
or by immaterial objects: a state of excited feeling.--_adjs._ SEN'S[=A]TE,
-D, perceived by the senses; SENS[=A]'TIONAL, pertaining to sensation:
having sensation: intended as a literary work to excite violent emotions:
adhering to a philosophical sensationalism.--_ns._ SENS[=A]'TIONALISM, the
doctrine that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and that there are
no innate ideas: sensualism: sensational writing; SENS[=A]'TIONALIST, a
believer in sensationalism: a sensational writer.--_adj._
SENS[=A]TIONALIST'IC.--_adv._ SENS[=A]'TIONALLY.--_adjs._ SEN'SATIVE;
SENSAT[=O]'RIAL, pertaining to sensation.--SENSATION NOVELS, novels that
deal in violent effects, strained emotion, and usually improbable
situations.
SENSE, sens, _n._ a faculty by which objects are perceived: perception:
discernment: understanding: power or soundness of judgment: reason:
opinion: conviction: import: immediate consciousness.--_ns._ SENSE'-BOD'Y,
a sense-organ in acalephs supposed to have a visual or an auditory
function; SENSE'-CAP'SULE, a receptive chamber for sensory perception,
connected with the ear, eye, and nose; SENSE'-CEN'TRE, a centre of
sensation.--_adj._ SENSED, chosen as to sense or meaning.--_ns._
SENSE'-EL'EMENT, an external sensation, as an element of perception;
SENSE'-FIL'AMENT, a filament having the function of an organ of
sense.--_adjs._ SENSE'FUL (_Spens._), full of sense or meaning, reasonable,
judicious, perceptive; SENSE'LESS, without sense: incapable of feeling:
wanting sympathy: foolish: unreasonable.--_adv._ SENSE'LESSLY.--_ns._
SENSE'LESSNESS; SENSE'-OR'GAN, any organ of sense, as the eye, ear, or
nose; SENSE'-PERCEP'TION, perception by means of the senses; SENSE'-RHYTHM,
Hebrew parallelism; SENSE'-SKEL'ETON, the framework of a sense-organ;
SENSIBIL'ITY, state or quality of being sensible: actual feeling: capacity
of feeling: susceptibility: acuteness of feeling: delicacy: mental
receptivity.--_adj._ SEN'SIBLE, capable of being perceived by the senses or
by the mind: capable of being affected: easily affected: delicate:
intelligent, marked by sense, judicious: cognisant: aware: appreciable:
sensitive: amenable to.--_n._ SEN'SIBLENESS.--_adv._ SEN'SIBLY.--_adjs_
SENSIF[=A]'CIENT, producing sensation; SENSIF'EROUS, SENSIF'IC,
SENSIFIC[=A]'TORY; SENSIG'ENOUS, giving rise to sensation; SEN'SILE,
capable of affecting the senses.--_ns_ SEN'SION, the becoming aware of
being affected from without in sensation; SEN'SISM, sensualism in
philosophy; SEN'SIST, a sensationalist.--_n._ SENSITIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._
SEN'SITISE, to render sensitive, to render capable of being acted on by
actinic rays of light.--_n._ SEN'SITISER.--_adj._ SEN'SITIVE, having sense
or feeling: susceptible to sensations: easily affected: pertaining to, or
depending on, sensation.--_adv._ SEN'SITIVELY.--_ns_ SEN'SITIVENESS,
SEN'SITIVITY, the state of being sensitive: keen sensibility: the state of
being delicately adjusted, as a balance: (_chem._) the state of being
readily affected by the action of appropriate agents; SENSITOM'ETER, an
apparatus for testing the degrees of sensitiveness of photographic
films.--_adjs_ SENS[=O]'RIAL, pertaining to the sensorium, sensory;
SENSORIDIGEST'IVE, partaking of digestive functions and those of touch, as
the tongue of a vertebrate animal.--_ns_ SENS[=O]'RIUM, SEN'SORY, the organ
which receives the impressions made on the senses: the nervous centre to
which impressions must be conveyed before they are received: the whole
sensory apparatus of the body, the nervous system, &c.--_adj._ SEN'SUAL,
pertaining to, affecting, or derived from the senses, as distinct from the
mind: not intellectual or spiritual: given to the pleasures of sense:
voluptuous: lewd: carnal: worldly.--_n._ SENSUALIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._
SEN'SUALISE, to make sensual: to debase by carnal gratification.--_ns_
SEN'SUALISM, sensual indulgence: the doctrine that all our knowledge is
derived originally from sensation: the regarding of the gratification of
the senses as the highest end; SEN'SUALIST, one given to sensualism or
sensual indulgence: a debauchee: a believer in the doctrine of
sensualism.--_adj._ SENSUALIST'IC, sensual: teaching the doctrines of
sensualism.--_n._ SENSUAL'ITY, indulgence in sensual pleasures:
lewdness.--_adv._ SEN'SUALLY, in a sensual manner.--_ns_ SEN'SUALNESS;
SEN'SUISM; SEN'SUIST.--_adj._ SEN'SUOUS, pertaining to sense: connected
with sensible objects: easily affected by the medium of the senses.--_adv._
SEN'SUOUSLY.--_n._ SEN'SUOUSNESS.--SENSITIVE FLAMES, flames easily affected
by sounds; SENSITIVE PLANT, one of certain species of Mimosa--from the
peculiar phenomena of irritability which their leaves exhibit when touched
or shaken; SENSUOUS COGNITION, cognition through the senses.--A SENSITIVE
PERSON, one sensitive to mesmeric influence; THE SENSES, or FIVE SENSES,
sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. [Fr.,--L. _sensus_--_sent[=i]re_,
to feel.]
SENT, sent, _n._ (_Spens._) scent, perception.
SENT, sent, _pa.t._ and _pa.p._ of _send_.
SENTENCE, sen'tens, _n._ opinion: a judgment pronounced on a criminal by a
court or judge: a maxim: (_gram._) a number of words containing a complete
thought: sense: meaning: matter.--_v.t._ to pronounce judgment on: to
condemn.--_n._ SEN'TENCER, one who sentences.--_adj._ SENTEN'TIAL,
pertaining to a sentence: comprising sentences.--_adv._
SENTEN'TIALLY.--_adj._ SENTEN'TIOUS, abounding with sentences or maxims:
short and pithy in expression: bombastic, or affected in speech.--_adv._
SENTEN'TIOUSLY.--_n._ SENTEN'TIOUSNESS, brevity with strength.--MASTER OF
THE SENTENCES, the great 12th-century schoolman, Peter Lombard (died 1160),
from his work _Sententiarum Libri IV._, an arranged collection of sentences
from Augustine, &c. [Fr.,--L. _sententia_--_sent[=i]re_, to feel.]
SENTIENT, sen'shi-ent, _adj._ discerning by the senses: having the faculty
of perception and sensation: (_phys._) noting those parts which on
stimulation give rise to sensation.--_n._ the mind as capable of
feeling.--_ns_ SEN'TIENCE, SEN'TIENCY.--_adv._ SEN'TIENTLY, in a sentient
or perceptive manner.
SENTIMENT, sen'ti-ment, _n._ a thought occasioned by feeling: opinion:
judgment: sensibility: feeling: a thought expressed in words: a maxim: a
toast: emotion: an exhibition of feeling, as in literature or art: (_pl.,
phren._) the second division of the moral faculties.--_adj._ SENTIMEN'TAL,
having or abounding in sentiments or reflections: having an excess of
sentiment or feeling: affectedly tender.--_v.t._ SENTIMEN'TALISE, to talk
sentiment.--_ns_ SENTIMEN'TALISM, SENTIMENTAL'ITY, quality of being
sentimental: affectation of fine feeling; SENTIMEN'TALIST, one who affects
sentiment or fine feeling: one guided by mere sentiment: one who regards
sentiment as more important than reason.--_adv._ SENTIMEN'TALLY.
[Fr.,--Late L.,--L. _sent[=i]re_, to feel.]