sensate

From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.seɪt/

sensate (comparative more sensate, superlative most sensate)

1. Perceived by one or more of the senses.
2. Having the ability to sense things physically.
3. Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Baxter to this entry?)

sensate (third-person singular simple present sensates, present participle sensating, simple past and past participle sensated)

1. (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.

   to sensate light, or an odour

   • R. Hooke

     As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.

• Santees, entases, sateens, senates, tenases

sensate

1. Feminine plural of adjective sensato.

• assente

sēnsāte

1. vocative masculine singular of sēnsātus