Sensible

Definition of Sensible

Sen´si`ble
a.1.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.
Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
- Arbuthnot.
The disgrace was more sensible than the pain.
- Sir W. Temple.
Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things.
- A. Smith.
2.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.
Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
- Shak.
3.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.
4.Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
He [man] can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- Locke.
They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.
- Addison.
5.Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
6.Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
Now a sensible man, by and by a fool.
- Shak.
Sensible note
(Mus.) the major seventh note of any scale; - so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone.
Sensible horizon
a - See Horizon, n., 2. (a).
n.1.Sensation; sensibility.
2.That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
- Krauth-Fleming.
3.That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
- Burton.

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