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sense-impression

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sensation due to the excitation of a peripheral organ of sense.

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Examples

  • Blackwall looks pleased and rather nervous – as you might well be if you were being sung to by a man whose idea of blissful domesticity is "The smell of your box on my moustache" (the lingering sense-impression from "That's What Our Love Is", one of tonight's standout songs).

    Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang; Trembling Bells 2010

  • But though sense-perception is innate in all animals, in some the sense-impression comes to persist, in others it does not.

    Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002

  • Some persons move in their sleep, and perform many acts like waking acts, but not without a phantasm or an exercise of sense-perception; for a dream is in a certain way a sense-impression.

    On Sleep and Sleeplessness 2002

  • Some persons move in their sleep, and perform many acts like waking acts, but not without a phantasm or an exercise of sense-perception; for a dream is in a certain way a sense-impression.

    On Sleep and Sleeplessness 2002

  • The philosopher, to whom a sense-impression is a mere needle-prick, useful only as it starts his thoughts off on a tangent from it to the separate world of ideas, is not unnaturally misled by the poet's total absorption in the world of sense.

    The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

  • The other alternative is that of clairvoyance in those present followed by projection by them to the animal of the idea obtained clairvoyantly; or else of a "telepathic" projection of the sense-impression from the animal to the bystanders, with return of the reply from the latter to the former.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • The essence of his belief being that "sense-impression is the foundation of instruction," he counselled the development of all the faculties in preference to the mere acquisition of words.

    The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

  • Sometimes it signifies a sense-impression, sometimes a mental representation, sometimes the thought, concept or essential nature of a thing.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Our two hands, moreover, will receive the same sense-impression from the tepid water, if we keep them in it long enough.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • _ -- The sense-impression of the other person may develop in the opposite direction when it becomes the medium for understanding the other.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

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