Definition of Sense

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- Shak.
What surmounts the reach
Of human sense I shall delineate.
- Milton.
The traitor Sense recalls
The soaring soul from rest.
- Keble.
- Bacon.
This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover.
- Sir P. Sidney.
High disdain from sense of injured merit.
- Milton.
He raves; his words are loose
As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.
- Dryden.
I speak my private but impartial sense
With freedom.
- Roscommon.
- Macaulay.
- Neh. viii. 8.
I think 't was in another sense.
- Shak.
7.Moral perception or appreciation.
- L' Estrange.
Common sense
b - "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations.
c - "Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish."
d - When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation."
Moral sense
a - See under Moral, (a).
The inner sense
Sense capsule
(Anat.) one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing.
- Locke.
Sense organ
Sense organule
(Anat.) one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate.
v. t.1.To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
[imp. & p. p. Sensed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sensing.]
Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?
- Glanvill.

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Sense capsule
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