Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 49

Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

Senior (n.) An aged person; an older.

Senior (n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

Seniority (n.) The quality or state of being senior.

Seniorize (v. i.) To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.

Seniory (n.) Seniority.

Senna (n.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

Senna (n.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.

Sennachy (n.) See Seannachie.

Sennet (n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.

Sennet (n.) The barracuda.

Sennight (n.) The space of seven nights and days; a week.

Sennit (n.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

Sennit (n.) Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.

Senocular (a.) Having six eyes.

Senonian (a.) In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.

Se–or (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.

Se–ora (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

Se–orita (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

Sens (adv.) Since.

Sensated (imp. & p. p.) of Sensate

Sensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sensate

Sensate (v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

Sensate (a.) Alt. of Sensated

Sensated (a.) Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.

Sensation (n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.

Sensation (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.

Sensation (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.

Sensational (a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.

Sensationalism (n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

Sensationalism (n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

Sensationalist (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

Sensationalist (n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

Sense (v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.

Sense (v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

Sense (v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

Sense (v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.

Sense (v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

Sense (v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

Sense (v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.

Sense (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.

Sensed (imp. & p. p.) of Sense

Sensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sense

Sense (v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Senseful (a.) Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.

Senseless (a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

Sensibilities (pl. ) of Sensibility

Sensibility (n.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.

Sensibility (n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

Sensibility (n.) That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.

Sensible (a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.

Sensible (a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.

Sensible (a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.

Sensible (a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

Sensible (a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

Sensible (a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.

Sensible (n.) Sensation; sensibility.

Sensible (n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

Sensible (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

Sensibleness (n.) The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

Sensibleness (n.) Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.

Sensibly (adv.) In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

Sensibly (adv.) With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.

Sensifacient (a.) Converting into sensation.

Sensiferous (a.) Exciting sensation; conveying sensation.

Sensific (a.) Exciting sensation.

Sensificatory (a.) Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.

Sensigenous (a.) Causing or exciting sensation.

Sensism (n.) Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.

Sensist (n.) One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Sensitive (a.) Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

Sensitive (a.) Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

Sensitive (a.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

Sensitive (a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

Sensitive (a.) Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Sensitive (a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Sensitivity (n.) The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

Sensitize (v. t.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

Sensitizer (n.) An agent that sensitizes.

Sensitory (n.) See Sensory.

Sensive (a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

Sensor (a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Sensorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.

Sensoriums (pl. ) of Sensorium

Sensoria (pl. ) of Sensorium

Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.

Sensori-volitional (a.) Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.

Sensories (pl. ) of Sensery

Sensery (n.) Same as Sensorium.

Sensory (a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Sensual (a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

Sensual (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.

Sensual (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.

Sensual (a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

Sensualism (n.) The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Sensualism (n.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.

Sensualism (n.) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.

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