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Etymology
From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sensate (comparative more sensate, superlative most sensate)
- Perceived by one or more of the senses.
- Having the ability to sense things physically.
- Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do
Verb
sensate (third-person singular simple present sensates, present participle sensating, simple past and past participle sensated)
- (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.
- to sensate light, or an odour
- R. Hooke
- As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
sensate
- feminine plural of sensato
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From sēnsātus (“sensible, intelligent”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
Adverb
sensātē (not comparable)
- intelligently, sensibly
Etymology 2
Adjective
sēnsāte
- vocative masculine singular of sēnsātus
References
- sensate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
sensate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of sensar combined with te