SENSUALIST
SENSU'ALIST, noun Aperson given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SENSUALITY
SENSUAL'ITY, noun Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.Those pamper'd animalsThat rage in savage sensuality. S...
SENSUALIZE
SENS'UALIZE, verb transitive To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; as sensualized by pleasure.By the neglect of prayer...
SENSUALLY
SENS'UALLY, adverb In a sensual manner.
SENSUOUS
SENS'UOUS, adjective [from sense.] Tender; pathetic. [Not in use.]
SENT
SENT, preterit tense and participle passive of send.
SENTENCE
SEN'TENCE, noun [from Latin sententia, from sentio, to think.]1. In law, a judgement pronounced by a court or judge upon a criminal; a jdicial decision publicly and officially d...
SENTENTIAL
SENTEN'TIAL, adjective1. Comprising sentences.2. Pertaining to a sentence or full period; as a sentential pause.
SENTENTIOUS
SENTEN'TIOUS, adjective1. Abounding with sentences, axioms and maxims; short and energetic; as a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.How he apes his sire,Ambitious...
SENTENTIOUSLY
SENTEN'TIOUSLY, adverb In short expressive periods; with striking brevity.Nausicca delivers her judgement sententiously, to give it more weight. Broome.
SENTENTIOUSNESS
SENTEN'TIOUSNESS, noun Pithiness of sentences; brevity with strength.The Medea I esteem for its gravity and sententiousness. Dryden.Sentery, and sentry are corrupted from sentinel.
SENTIENT
SENTIENT, adjectivesen'shent. [Latin sentiens, sentio.] That perceives; having the faculty of perception. Man is a sentient being; he possesses a sentient principle.SEN'TIENT, n...
SENTIMENT
SEN'TIMENT, noun [from Latin sentio, to feel, perceive or think.]1.Properly. a thought prompted by passion or feeling.2. In a popular sense, Thought; opinion; notion; judgement;...
SENTIMENTAL
SENTIMENT'AL, adjective1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.3. Affecting sensibility...
SENTIMENTALIST
SENTIMENT'ALIST, noun One that affects sentiment, fine feeling or exquisite sensibility.
SENTIMENTALITY
SENTIMENTAL'ITY, noun Affectation of fine feeling or exqisite sensibility.
SENTINEL
SENT'INEL, noun [from Latin sentio, to perceive.] In military affairs, a soildier sent to watch or guard an army, camp or other place from surprise, to observe the approach of d...
SENTRY
SEN'TRY, noun1. [See Sentinel.]2. Guard; watch; the duty of a sentines.O'er my slumbers sentry keep. Brown.
SENTRY-BOX
SEN'TRY-BOX, noun A box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.
SEPAL
SE'PAL, noun [from Latin sepio.] In botany, the small leaf or part of a calyx.
SEPARABILITY
SEPARABIL'ITY, noun [from separable.] The quality of being separable, or of admitting separation or disunion.Separability is the greatest argument of real distinction. Glanville.
SEPARABLE
SEP'ARABLE, adjective That may be separated, disjoined, disunited or rent; as the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exsist.
SEPARABLENESS
SEP'ARABLENESS, noun The quality of being capable of separation or disunion.Trials permit me not to doubt of the separablenessof a yellow tincture from gold.Boyle.
SEPARATE
SEP'ARATE, verb transitive [Latin separo.]1. To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined. The parts of a solid su...
SEPARATED
SEP'ARATED, participle passive Divided; parted; disunited; disconnected.
SEPARATELY
SEP'ARATELY, adverb In a separate or unconnected state; apart; distinctly; singly. The opinions of the council were separately taken.
SEPARATENESS
SEP'ARATENESS, noun The state of being separate.