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SE'MSTRESS. n. s. (reamesere, Sax] A

But first, whom shall we serd woman whose business is to sew; a

In search of this new world? Here he had need

All circumspection, and we now no less woman who lives by her needle.

Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send Two hundred semstresses were employed to The weight of all and our last hope relies. Milt. make me shirts, and linen for bed and table, which they were forced to quilt together in se

3. To transmit by another; not to bring. veral folds.

They sent it to the elders by the hands of
Gulliver.
Barnabas.

Acts. The tuck'd-up semstress walks with hasty strides.

Swift. 4. To dismiss another as agent; not to go.

God will deigti
SE'N ARY. adj. (senarius, seni, Lat.) Be. To visit oft the dwellings of just men

longing to the number six ; containing Delighted, and with frequent intercourse,
six.

Thither will send his winged messengers SE'NATE. n. s. (senatus, Lat. senat, Fr.]

On errands of supernal grace.

Milton.

if An assembly of counsellors ; a body of 5. To grant as from a distant place; as,

God send life. men set apart to consult for the publick

I good.

pray thee send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master.

Genesis. We debase

O send out thy light and thy truth'; let them The nature of our seats, which will in time

lead me.

Psalms. break ope

6. To inflict, as from a distance. The locks o'th' senate, and bring in the crows

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexa. To peck the eagles.

Sbakspeare.

tion, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thino There they shall found

hand unto.

Deuteronomy: Their government, and their great senate chuse.

Milton.

7. To emit; to immit ; to produce. He had not us'd excursions, spears, or darts,

The water sends forth plants that have no But counsel, order, and such aged arts;

roots fixed in the bottom, being almost but Which if our ancestors had not retain'd,

leaves.

Bacon. The senate's name our council had not gain'd.

The senses send in only the influxes of material Denbam.

things, and the imagination and memory present Gallus was welcom'd to the sacred strand,

only their pictures or images, when the objects The senate rising to salute their guest. Dryden.

themselves are absent.

Cbeyne.

8. To diffuse ; to propagate. SE'NA TEHOUSE. n. s. (senate and bouse.] n.

Cherubic songs by night from neighb'ring hills Place of publick council.

Aëreal music send.

Milton. The nobles in great earnestness are going

When the fury took her stand on high, All to the senatebouse ; some news is come. A hiss from all the snaky cire went round:

Sbakspeare, The dreadful signal all the rocks rebound, SE'NATOR. %. S. (senator, Lat. senateur, And through th' Achaian cities send the sound. Fr.] A publick counsellor.

Popc. Most unwise patricians,

9. To let fly; to cast or shoot. You grave but reckless senators. Sbakspeare. To SEND. v. n. As if to ev'ry fop it might belong,

1. To dispatch a message. Like senators, to censure, right or wrong.

I have made bold to send in to your wife : Granville.

My suit is that she will to Desdemona SENATO'RIAL. adj. (senatorius, Latin ; Procure me some access.

Sbakspeare. SENATO'RTAN.S senatorial, senatorien,

This son of a murderer hath sent :o take away Fr.] Belonging to senators; befitting

Kings.

They could not attempt their perfect reformsenators.

ation in church and state, till those votes were TO SEND. v.a. pret. and part. pass. sent. utterly abolished; therefore they sent the same (sandgan, Gothick; rendan, Saxon; day again to the king.

Clarendon. senden, Dutch.)

2. TO SEND for. To require by message to 1. To dispatch from one place to another:

come, or cause to be brought. used both of persons and things.

Go with me, some few of you, and see the He sent letters by posts on horseback. Estber.

place; and then you may send for your sick, His citizens sent a message after him, saying,

which bring on land.

Bacon. We will not have this man to reign over us.

is. Luke. He sent for me; and, while I rais’d his head, There have been commissions

He threw his aged arms about my neck, Sent down among them, which have flaw'd the And, seeing that I wept, he press'd me close. heart

Dryden. Of all their loyalties.

Shakspeare. SE'NDER. n. s. [from send.] He that My overshadowing spirit and might with thee sends. I send along.

Milton.

This was a merry message:
To remove him I decree,

-We hope to make the sender blush at it. And send him from the garden forth to till

Sbakspears. The ground whence he was taken, fitcer soil.

Love that comes too late.

Milton. Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, His wounded men he first sends off to shore. To the great sender turns a sour offence. Dryden.

Sbakspears. Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat Best with the best, the sender, not the sent. longer than the message requires. Swift.

Milton. 2. To commission by authority to go and SENESCENCE. n. s. (senesco, Lat.] The act.

state of growing old; decay by time. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. The earth and all things will continue in the

Jeremiah. state wherein they now are, without the least

my head.

taste.

senescence or decay; without jarring, disorder, or The brain, distempered by a cold, beating invasion of one another.

Woodward. against the root of the auditory nerve, and proSE'NESCHAL. n. s. (seneschal, Fr. of un- tracted to the tympanum, causes the sensation of certain original.]

noise.

Harvey. 1. One who had in great houses the care

This great source of most of the ideas we have, of feasts or domestick ceremonies.

depending wholly upon our senses, and derived

by them to the understanding, I call sensation. John earl of Huntingdon, under his seal of

Locke. arms, made sir John Arundel, of Trerice, senes

When we are asleep, joy and sorrow give us cbel of his household, as well in peace as in war.

more vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure than Carew, at any other time.

Addison, Marshall'd feast,

The happiest, upon a fair estimate, have Serv'd up in hall with sewers and senescbals;

stronger sensations of pain than pleasure. Rogerso The skill of artifice, or office, mean! Millom.

The senescbal rebuk'd, in haste withdrew; SENSE. n. s. [sens, Fr. sensus, Lat.) With equal haste a menial train pursue. Pope. 1. Faculty or power by which external 2. It afterward came to signify other of- objects are perceived ; the sight, touch,

l; fices.

hearing, smell, taste. SE'NGREEN. n. s. [sedum.] A plant.

The pow'r is sense, which from abroad doch SE'NILE. adj. (senilis, Lat.] Belonging to bring old age ; consequent on old age.

The colour, taste, and touch, and scent, and

sound, My green youth made me very unripe for a task of that nature, whose difficulty requires that

The quantity and shape of ev'ry thing

Within earth's centre or heav'n's circle found : it should be handled by a person in whom nature, education, and time, have happily matched

And though things sensible be numberless,

But only five the sense's organs be; a senile maturity of judgment with youthful vi

And in those five all things theirforms express, gour of fancy.

Boyle.

Which we can touch, taste, feel, or hear, or see. SENIOR. n. s. (senior, Lat.]

Davies 3. One older than another; one who, on Then is the soul a nature, which contains

account of longer time, has some supe- The pow'r of sense within a greater pow'r, riority.

Which doth employ and use the sense's pains; How can you admit your seniors to the examin- But sits and rules within her private bow'r. ation or allowing of them, not only being in

Davies. ferior in office and calling, but in gitts also ?

Both contain
W bitgift.

Within them ev'ry lower faculty 2. An aged person.

Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, A senior of the place replies,

Milton. Well read, and curious of antiquities. Dryden.

Of the five senses, two are usually and most SENIO'RITY: n. s. [from senior.) Elder

properly called the senses of learning, as being

most capable of receiving communication of ship; priority of birth.

thought and notions by selected signs; and these Asin insurrections the ringleader is looked on are hearing and seeing.

Holder. with a peculiar severity, so, in this case, the first provoker has, by his seniority and primogeniture,

2. Perception by the senses ; sensation. a double portion of the guist. Gov.of the Tongue.

In a living creature, though never so great, He was the clder brother, and Ulysses might

the sense and the affects of any one part of the be consigned to his care by the right due to his

body instantly make a transcursion throughout seniority.

Broome.
the whole.

Bacon. SU'NNA. n. s. (sena, Lat.] A physical

If we had nought but sense, then only they

Should have sound minds which have their senses tree.

Miller.

sound; What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug,

But wisdom grows when senses do decay, Would scour these English hence? Sbakspeare.

And folly most in quickest sense is found. Davies. Senna tree is of two sorts: the bastard senna,

Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind, and the scorpion senna ; both which yield a plea

That, like the earth's, it leaves the sense

behind. sant leaf and flower.

Mortimer. SE'NNIGHT. n. s. [contracted from seven· night.] The space of seven nights and 3. Perception of intellect ; apprehension

of mind. days; a week. See FORTNIGHT. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover,

If mention is made, on Monday, of took as though his mistress had given him a seThursday sennight, the Thursday that cret reprehension. follows the next Thursday is meant.

God, to remove his ways from human sense,

Plac'd heav'n from earth so far. Time trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is 4. Sensibility ; quickness or keenness of soleninized : if the interim be but a sennight, perception. tin.e's pace is so hard that it seems the length of

He should have liv’d, seven years.

Shakspeare, Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense, SENO'CULAR. adj. [seni and oculus, Lat.] Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge. Having six eyes.

Mest animals are binocular, spiders octonocue 5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; lar, and some senecular.

Derbam.

strength of natural reason. SENSATION. n. s. (sensation, Fr. sensatio,

Opprest nature sleeps : school Lat.] Perception by means of the This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Liversity of constitution, or other circum

God hath endued mankind with powers and stances, vary the sensations; and to them of Java abilities which we call natural light and reason,

Glanville. and common sense.

.

Sidney

Milton.

Sbakspeare.

Senses.

Sbakspeare.

Puter is cold,

Bentley.

a

with of.

There's something previous even to taste; 't is They would repent this their senseless pera
SERSE,

verseness when it would be too late, and when Good sense, which only is the gift of heaven, they found themselves under a power that would And, though no science, fairly worth the seven: destroy them.

Clarendon. A light within yourself you must perceive; If we be not extremely foolish, thankless, or

Jones and Le Nôtre have it not to give. Pope. senseless, a great joy is more apt to cure sorrow 6. Reason ; reasonable meaning.

than a great troublé is.

Taylor. He raves; his words are loose

The great design of this author's book is to As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense: prove this, which I believe no man in the world You see he knows not me, his natural father;

was ever so senseless as to deny: Tillotson. That now the wind is got into his head,

She saw her favour was misplac'd ; And turns his brains to frenzy. Dryden.

The fellows had a wretched taste : 7. Opinion; notion ; judgment.

She needs must tell them to their face, I speak my private bui impartial sense

They were a senseless stupid race. Swift. With freedom, and, I hope, without offence.

4. Contrary to true judgment; contrary

Roscommon, to reason. 8. Consciousness; conviction.

It is a senseless thing, in reason, to think that In the due sense of my want of learning, I only

one of these interests can stand without the make a confession of my own faith. Dryden.

other, when, in the very order of natural causes, .. Moral perception.

government is preserved by religion. South. Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have

Other creatures, as well as monkies, little wiser no sense of the most friendly offices. L'Estrange.

than they, destroy their young by senseless fond10. Meaning; import.

ness, and too much embracing. Locke, In this sense, to be preserved from sin is not

3. Wanting sensibility; wanting quickness impossible.

Hooker. or keenness of perception. Not in use. My hearty friends,

To draw Mars like a young Hippolitus, with You take me in too dolorous a sense.Sbakspeare.

an effeminate countenance, or that hot-spurred A haughty presumption, that because we are Harpalice in Virgil, proceedeth from a senseless encouraged to believe that in some sense all

and over-cold judgment.

Peacbam. things are made for man, that therefore they are 6. Wanting knowledge ; unconscious : not made at all for themselves.

More. All before Richard 1. before time of me

The wretch is drench'd too deep mory; and what is since is, in a legal sense, His soul is stupid, and his heart asleep, within the time of memory.

Hale. Fatten'd in vice; so callous and so gross, In one sense it is, indeed, a building of gold and He sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. Dryde silver upon the foundation of christianity,

Hear this,

Tillotson, You unhous'd, lawless, rambling, libertines, When a word has been used in two or three

Senseless of any charm in love, beyond senses, and has made a great inroad for error, The prostitution of a common bed. Soutberri. drop one or two of those senses, and leave it only SE'NSELESSLY. adv. (from senseless. ] In one remaining, and affix the other senses or ideas to other words.

Watts.

a senseless manner; stupidly; unreasonSE'NSED. part. [from sense.] Perceived by

ably.

If any one should be found so senselessly arrothe senses.

Not in use.
Let the sciolist tell me, why things must needs

gant as to suppose man alone knowing and wise,

but yet the product of mere ignorance and be so as his individual senses represent them: is

chance, and that all the rest of the universe he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by

acted only by that blind hap-hazard, I shall leave others, than they are by him? And why must

with him that very rational and emphatical rehis sense be the infallible criterion ? It may be, what is white to us, is black to negroes. Glanville

. SE'NSELESSsess. n. s. [from senseless.] buke of Tully.

Locke. SE'NSEFUL. adj. [from sense and full.]

Folly; unreasonableness; absurdity; Reasonable ; judicious. Not used. Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious, quote

stupidity.

The senselessness of the tradition of the CTOCOsuch things out of an author as would never pass in conversation.

Norris.

dile's moving bis upper jaw is plain, from the

articulation of the occiput with the neck, and SE'NSELESS. adj. [from sense.]

the nether jaw with the upper.

Grew. 1. Wanting sense; wanting life ; void of SENSIBILITY. n. s. [sensibilité, French.] all life or perception.

1. Quickness of sensation. The charm and venom which they drunk Their blood with secret filth infected hath,

2. Quickness of perception ; delicacy. Being diffused through the senseless trunk,

Modesty is a kind of quick and delicate feel.

ing in the soul: it is such an exquisite sensibility, That through the great contagion direful deadly stunk.

Fairy Queen.

as warns a woman to shun the first appearance The ears are senseless that should give us hear

of every thing hurtful.

Addison, ing,

SE'NSIBLE. adj. (sensible, Fr. sensiiis, Lat.) To tell him his commandment is fulfill’d. Shak. 1. Having the power of perceiving by the You blocks! you worse than senseless things! senses.

Sbakspeare. Would your' cambrick were as sensible as your It is as repugnant to the idea of senseless mate

finger, that you mighie leave pricking it for picy, ter, that it should put into itself sense, pero

Sbakspeare. ception, and knowledge, as it is repugnant to the These be chose discourses of God, whose effects idea of a triangle, that it should put into itself those that live witness in themselves; the sensible greater angles than two right ones. Locke,

in their sensibie natures, the reasonable in cheir 2. Unfeeling; wanting, sympathy.

reasonable souls.

Raleigh. The senseless grave feels not your pious sora A blind man conceives not colours, but under

Rowe. the notion of some other sensille faculty. Glany.. 3. Unreasonable; stupid; doltish; blochish. 2. Perceptible by the senses.

VOL, IV.

rows.

By reason man attaineth unto the knowledge of this feeling and sensibleness, and sorrow for sin, things that are and are not sensible : it resteth, the most vital quality.

Hammond. therefore, that we search how man attaineth 5. Judgment; reasonableness. An use not unto the knowledge of such things unsensible as admitted but in conversation. are to be known.

Hooker.
Is this a dagger which I see before me, SE'NSIBLY. adv. (from sensible.]
The handle tow'rd my hand ? Come, let me 1. Perceptibly to the senses.
clutch thee:

He is your brother, lords ; sensibly fed
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still :

Of that self-blood that first gave life to you. Sbak. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

A sudden pain in my right foot increased serie To feeling as to sight? Shakspeare. sibly.

Temple. The space left and acquired in every sensible The salts of human urine may, by the violent moment in such slow progressions, is so incon- motion of the blood, be turned alkaline, and even siderable, that it cannot possibly move the sense. corrosive ; and so they affect the fibres of the

Glanville,

brain more sensibly than other parts. Arbuthnot. It is manifest that the heavens are void of all

2. With perception of either mind or sensible resistance, and by consequence of all sensible matter.

Newton,

body. The greater part of men are no otherwise 3. Externally; by impression on the senses. moved than by sense, and have neither leisure

That church of Christ, which we properly nor ability so to improve their power of re

term his body mystical, can be but one; neither filection as to be capable of conceiving the divine

can that one be sensibly discerned by any, inasperfections, without the assistance of sensible ob- much as the parts thereof are some ia heaven jects.

Rogers:
already with Christ.

Hooker. Air is sensible to the touch by its motion, and 4. With quick intellectual perception. by its resistance to bodies moved in it. Arbuth. 5. [In low language.] Judiciously; reaa. Perceived by the mind.

sonably. Idleness was punished by so many stripes in SE'NSITIVE. adj. [sensitif, Fr.] Having publick, and the disgrace was more sensible than the pain.

sense or perception, but not reason. Temple.

The sensitive faculty may have a sensitive love 4. Perceiving by either mind or senses ; of some sensitive objects, which though moderhaving perception by the mind or senses. ated so as not to fall into sin, yet, through the This must needs remove

nature of man's sense, may express itself more The sensible of pain.

Milton. sensitively towards that inferior object than toI saw you in the east at your first arising: I wards God: this is a piece of human frailty. was as soon sensible as any of that light, when

Hammond. just shooting out, and beginning to travel up- All the actions of the sensitive appetite are in wards to the meridian.

Dryden. painting called passions, because the soul is agiI do not say there is no soul in man, because tated by them, and because the body suffers and he is not sensible of it in his sleep; but I do say, is sensibly altered.

Dryden, he cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, Bodies are such as are endued with a vegetawithout being sensible of it.

Locke. tive soul, as plants; a sensitive soul, as animals; The versification is as beautiful as the de- or a rational soul, as the body of man. Ray. scription complete; every ear must be sensible SE'NSITIVE Plant. n. s. [mimosa, Lat.) A

of it. s. Having moral perception ; having the

plant. quality of being affected by moral good

The flower consists of one leaf, which is shaped like a funnel, having many stamina in the cen

tre: these flowers are collected into a round If thou wert sensible of courtesy,

head: from the bottom of the flower rises the I should not make so great a shew of zeal. Shak. pistillum, which afterwards becomes an oblong 6. Having quick intellectual feeling; being fiat-jointed pod, which opens both ways, and coneasily or strongly affected.

taius in each partition one roundish seed. Of Even I, the bold, the sensible of wrong,

this plant the humble plants are a species, which Restrain'd by shame, was forc'd to hold my

are so called, because, upon being touched, the tongue.

Dryden.

pedicle of their leaves falls downward; but the 9. Convinced ; persuaded. A low use.

leaves of the sensitive plant are only contracted.

Miller. They are very sensible that they had better

Vegetables have many of them some degrees have pushed their conquests on the other side of the Adriatick; for then their territories would

of motion, and, upon the different application of

other bodies to them, do very briskly alter their have lain together.

Addison.

figure and motion, and so have obtained the 8. In low conversation it has sometimes the

name of sensitive plants, from a motion which sense of reasonable ; judicious; wise. has some resemblance to that which in animals I have been tired with accounts from sensible follows upon sensation,

Locke. men, furnished with matters of fact, which have Whence does it happen that the plant, which happened within their own knowledge. Addison.

well SE'NSIBLENESS, n. s. (from sensible.] We name the sensitive, should move and feel?

Whence know her leaves to answer her com1. Possibility to be perceived by the senses.

mand, 7. Actual perception by mind or body:

And with quick horror fily the neighb'ring hand ? 3. Quickness of perception ; sensibility:

Prior. The sensibleness of the eye renders it subject The sensitive plant is so called, because, as soon to pain, as also unfit to be dressed with sharp

as you touch it, the leaf shrinks.

Mortimer. medicaments.

Sharp. 4. Painful consciousness.

SE'NSITIVELY. adv. (from sensitive.] La There is no condition of soul more wretched

a sensitive manner. than that of the senseless obdurate sinner, being The sensitive faculty, through the nature of a kind of numbness of soul; and, contrariwise, mau's sense, may express itself more sensitively

or ill.

towards an inferior object thari towards God: To Se’NSUALIZE: v. a. [from sensual.] this is a piece of frailty.

Hammond, To sink to sensual pleasures ; to deSENSO'RIUM. n. s. (Latin.]

grade the mind into subjection to the

senses. 1. The part where the senses transmit their Not to suffer one's self to be sensualized by perceptions to the mind; the seat of pleasures, like those who '

were changed into . sense.

brutes by Circe.

Pepe. Spiritual species, both visible and audible, will SE'NSUALLY. adv. [from sensual.) In a work upon the sensories, though they move not sensual manner. any other body.

Bacon. SE'NSUOUS. adj. [from sense:] Tender ; As sound in a bell, or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling mo

pathetick; full of passion. Not in use. tion, and the air nothing but that motion pro

To this poetry would be made precedent, as pagated from the object, in the sensorium 't is a

being less subtile and fine; but more simple, sense of that motion under the form of sound.

sensuous, and passionate.

Milton. Newton.

Sent. The participle passive of send. Is not the sensory of animals the place to

I make a decree that all Israel go with thee; which the sensitive substance is present, and into

forasmuch as thou art sent of the king. Ezra. which the sensible species of things are carried SENTENCE. n. s. [sentence, Fr. sententia, through the nerves of the brain, that there shey may be perceived by their immediate presence

Latin.) to that substance?

Newton,

1. Determination or decision, as of a judge 2. Organ of sensation.

civil or criminal. That we all have double sensories, two eyes,

The rule of voluntary agents on earth is the two ears, is an effectual confutation of this athe. sentence that reason giveth, concerning the goodistical sophism.

Bentley

ness of those things which they are to do. Hooker.

If we have neither voice from heaven, that so SENSUAL. adj. [sensuel, French.)

pronounceth of them, neither sentence of men 1. Consisting in sense ; depending on grounded upon such manifest and clear proof, sense ; affecting the senses.

that they, in whose hands it is to alter them, Men in general are too partial, in favour of a

may likewise infallibly, even in heart and consensual appetite, to take notice of truth when science, judge them so; upon necessity to urge they have found it.

L'Estrange.

alteration, is to trouble and discurb without neFar as creation's ample range extends,

cessity.

Hooker. The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends. Pope.

Hoiv will I give senter.ce against them. Jeremieb. 2. Pleasing to the senses ; carnal ; not spi

If matter of fact breaks out with too great an ritual.

evidence to be denied, why, still there are other The greatest part of men are such as prefer

lenitives, that friendship will apply, before it

will be brought to the decretory rigours of a their own private good before all things, even

condemning sentence.

South. that good which is sensual before whatsoever is

Let him set out some of Luther's works, that most divine.

Hooker,

by them we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. 3. Devoted to sense ; lewd ; luxurious.

Atterbury. From amidst them rose Belial, the dissolutest spirit that fell;

2. It is usually spoken of condemnation The sensuallest, and, after Asmodai,

pronounced by the judge; doom. The fleshliest, incubus.

Milton.

By the consent of all laws, in capital causes, No small part of virtue consists in abstaining

the evidence must be full and clear; and if so, from that wherein sensual men place their fe

where one man's life is in question, what say licity:

we to a war, which is ever the sentence of death

Atterbury. SE'NSUALIST. n. s. [from sensual.] A

upon many ?

Bacon.

What rests but that the mortal sentence pass ? carnal person ; one devoted to corporal

Mition. pleasures.

3. A maxim; an axiom, generally moral. Let atheists and sensualists satisfy themselves

A sentence may be defined a moral instruction as they are able ; the former of which will find, couched in a few words.

Broome. that, as long as reason keeps her ground, religion 4. A short paragraph; a period in writing. neither can nor will lose hers.

South.

An excellent spirit, knowledge, understandSENSUA’LITY: 1. s. [froin sensual.] De- ing, and shewing of hard sentences, were found in votedness to the senses ; addiction to Daniel

Daniel. brutal and corporal pleasures.

TO SE'NTENCE. 7. a. [sentencier, Fr. from But you are more intemperate in your blood the noun.] Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals 1. To pass the last judgment on any one. That rage in savage sensuality. Sbakspeare.

After this cold consid'rance, sentence me; Kill not her quick’ning pow'r with surfeit

And, as you are a king, speak in your state, ings;

What I have done that misbecame my place. Mar not her sense with sensuality:

Shakspeare. Cast not her serious wit on idle things;

Came the mild judge and intercessor both, Make not her free-will slave to vanity. Davies. To sentence man.

Milton, Sensuality is one kind of pleasure, such an one as it is.

South.

2. To condemn; to doom to punishment,

Could chat decree from our brother come? They avoid dress, lest they should have af

Nature lierself is sentenc'd in your doom : fections tainted by any sensuality, and diverted from the love of him who is to be the only com

Piety is no more.

Dryden,

Idleness, sentenced by the decurions, was pue fort and delight of their whole beings. Addison.

nished by so many stripes.

Temple. Impure and brutal sensuality was too much confirmed by the religion of those countries, SENTENTIOSITY:n so[from sententio2.] where even Venus and Bacchus had their tem- Comprehension in a sentence. plan

Bentley, Vulgar precepts in morality carry with shem

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