Dictionary entry

Sensible (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sen″si‐ble (?), n. 1. Sensation; sensibility. ”Our temper changed... which must needs remove the sensible of pain.” Milton.

2. That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper. Krauth-Fleming.

3. That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles. Burton.