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Etymologies
- Middle English, meaning, from Old French sens, from Latin sēnsus, the faculty of perceiving, from past participle of sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“It is of prime importance that what we seem to know we know accurately; and as it is through the senses that we acquire our knowledge, not only of the outward objects with which we are daily conversant, but of other minds than our own, * the education of the senses* is an obvious duty.”
“Jesus†™ initial reaction to the knowledge flooding his mind and the assault to his senses is a catatonic state.”
“The fish that had prompted me to take leave of my senses is an evil-tempered, prehistoric critter that lives only in certain big, cold, fast rivers in Mongolia and Siberia, most of which flow into the Arctic Ocean.”
Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait)
“This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was ‘finding his feet as a writer’.”
“The development of the main senses took place in OF., and is not free from obscurity (cf., however, couth and known).”
“And to what extent this virtual reality engages all five senses is not made completely clear.”
“This is especially so when the jargon uses common words in senses that differ from their common meaning.”
“The evolutionist embraces a competing philosophy instead such as naturalism (the belief that natural causes and laws can explain all phenomena) or empiricism (the belief that experience, especially the senses, is the source of all knowledge).”
The Huffington Post: Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Creationists Destroy Creationism with Their Own Words
“To dismiss one of the most inventive movies in recent memory as a candy-colored assault on the senses is missing the point completely.”
Top 10 Overlooked Movies of the Last Five Years » Scene-Stealers
“In the first Dictionary of Modern English Usage, H.W. Fowler defines catachresis as ‘wrong application of a term, use of words in senses that do not belong to them’, adding examples such as the use of mutual to mean common, and chronic to mean severe.”
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