Semblative – Sepulture

Semblative

SEM'BLATIVE, adjective Resembling; fit; suitable; according to.

And all is semblativea woman's part. Shak. [Not in use.]

Semble

SEM'BLE, verb transitive To imitate; to represent or make similar.

Where sembling art may carve the fair effect. Shak. [Not in use.]

Semi

SEM'I, Latin semi, In composition, signifies half.

Semi-Acidified

SEMI-ACID'IFIED, adjective or participle passive Half acidified. [See Acidified.]

Semi-Amplexicaul

SEMI-AMPLEX'ICAUL, adjective [Latin semi, amplexus, or amplector, to embrace, and caulis, stem.]

In botang, embracing the stem half way, as a stem.

Semi-Annual

SEMI-AN'NUAL, adjective [semi and annual.] Half yearly.

Semi-Annually

SEMI-AN'NUALLY, adverb Every half year.

Semi-Annular

SEMI-AN'NULAR, adjective [Latin semi and annulus, a ring.] Having the figure of a half circle; that is, half round.

Semi-Aperture

SEMI-AP'ERTURE, noun [semi and aperture.] The half of an aperture.

Semi-Arian

SEMI-A'RIAN, noun [See Arian.] In ecclesiastical history, the Semi-arians were a branch of the Arians, who in appearance condemned the errors of Arius, but acquiesced in some of his principles, disguising them under more moderate terms. they did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar priviledge.

SEMI-A'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to semi-arianism.

Semi-Arianism

SEMI-A'RIANISM, noun The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-arians. The semi-arianism of modern times consists in maintaining the Son to have been from all eternity begotten by the will of the father.

Semi-Barbarian

SEMI-BARBA'RIAN, adjective [semi and barbarian.] Half savage; partially civilized.

Semi-Castrate

SEMI-CAS'TRATE, verb transitive To deprive of one testicle.

Semi-Castration

SEMI-CASTRA'TION, noun Half castration; deprivation of one testicle.

Semi-Columnar

SEMI-COLUM'NAR, adjective [semi and columnar.] Like a half column; flat on one side and round on the other; a term of botany, applied to a stem, leaf or petiole.

Semi-Compact

SEMI-COM'PACT, adjective [semi and compact.] Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

Semi-Crustaceous

SEMI-CRUSTA'CEOUS, adjective [semi and crustaceous.] Half crustaceous.

Semi-Cylindric

SEMI-CYLIN'DRIC, adjective [semi and cylindric.] Half cylindrical.

Semi-Cylindrical

SEMI-CYLIN'DRICAL,

Semi-Deistical

SEMI-DEIS'TICAL, adjective Half deistical; bordering on deism.

Semi-Diameter

SEMI-DIAM'ETER, noun [semi and diameter.] Half the diameter; a right line or the length of a right line drawn from the center or sphere to its circumference or periphery; a radius.

Semi-Diapason

SEMI-DIAPA'SON, noun [semi and diapason.] In music, an imperfect octave, or an octave diminished by a lesser semitone.

Semi-Diapente

SEMI-DIAPEN'TE, noun An imperfect fifth; a hemi-diapente.

Semi-Diaphaneity

SEMI-DIAPHANE'ITY, noun [See Semidiaphanous.] Half or imperfect transparency. [Little used.] [Instead of this, translucency is used.]

Semi-Diaphanous

SEMI-DIAPH'ANOUS, adjective [semi and diaphanous.] Half or imperfecty transparent. [Instead of this, translecent is now used.]

Semi-Diatessaron

SEMI-DIATES'SARON, noun [semi and diatessaron.] In music, an imperfect or defective fourth.

Semi-Ditone

SEM'I-DITONE, noun [semi and It. ditono.] In music, a lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemi-ditone.

Semi-Double

SEM'I-DOUBLE, noun [semi and double.] In the Romish breviary, an office celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones, but with more than the single ones.

Semi-Fluid

SEMI-FLU'ID, adjective [semi and fluid.] Imperfectly fluid.

Semi-Formed

SEM'I-FORMED, adjective [semi and formed.] Half formed; imperfectly formed; as semi-formed crystals.

Semi-Indurated

SEMI-IN'DURATED, adjective [semi and indurated.] Imperfectly indurated or hardened.

Semi-Lapidified

SEMI-LAPID'IFIED, adjective [semi and lapidified.] Imperfectly changed into stone.

Semi-Lenticular

SEMI-LENTIC'ULAR, adjective [semi and lenticular.] Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.

Semi-Metal

SEM'I-METAL, noun [semi and metal.] An imperfect metal, or rather a metal that is not malleable,

as bismuth, arsenic, nickel, cobalt, zinc, antimony, maganese, tungsten, molybden, and uranite. The name however is usually given to the regulus of these substances.

Semi-Metallic

SEMI-METAL'LIC, adjective Pertaining to a semi-metal, or partaking of its noture and qualities.

Semi-Opa-Cous

SEMI-OPA-COUS,

Semi-Opake

SEMI-OPA'KE, adjective [Latin semi and opacus.] Half transparent only.

Semi-Opal

SEM'I-OPAL, noun A variety of opal.

Semi-Orbiclar

SEMI-ORBIC'LAR, adjective [semi and orbicular.] Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.

Semi-Ordinate

SEMI-OR'DINATE, noun [semi and ordinate.] In conic sections, a line drawn at right angles to and bisected by the axis, and reaching from one side of the section to the other; the half of which is properly semi-ordinate but is now called the ordinate.

Semi-Osseous

SEMI-OS'SEOUS, adjective [semi and osseous.] Half as hard as bone.

Semi-Ovate

SEMI-O'VATE, adjective [semi and ovate.] Half egg-shaped.

Semi-Oxygenated

SEMI-OX'YGENATED, adjective Half saturated with oxygen.

Semi-Palmate

SEMI-PAL'MATE, adjective [semi and palmate.] Half palmated or webbed.

Semi-Palmated

SEMI-PAL'MATED,

Semi-Pelagian

SEMI-PELA'GIAN, noun In ecclesiastical history, the Semi-pelagians are persons who retain some tincture of the doctrines of pelagius. See Pelegianism. They hold that God has not by predestination dispensed his grace to one more than another; that Christ died to all men; that the grace purchased by Christ and necessary to salvation, is offered to all men; that man, before he receives grace, is capable of faith and holy desires; and that man being born free, is capable of accepting grace, or of resisting its influences.

SEMI-PELA'GIAN, adjective Pertaining to the Semi-pelagians, or other tenets.

Semi-Pelagianism

SEMI-PELA'GIANISM, noun The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-pelagians, supra.

Semi-Pellucid

SEMI-PELLU'CID, adjective [semi and pellucid.] Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as a semi-pellucid gem.

Semi-Pellucidity

SEMI-PELLUCID'ITY, noun The quality or state of being imperfecty transparent.

Semi-Perspicuous

SEMI-PERSPIC'UOUS, adjective [semi and perspicuous.] Half transparent; imperfectly clear.

Semi-Phlogisticate

SEMI-PHLOGIS'TICATED, a. [semi and phlogisticated.] Partially impregnated with phlogiston.

Semi-Primigenous

SEMI-PRIMIG'ENOUS, adjective [semi and primigenous.] In geology, of a middle nature between substances of primary and secondaryformation.

Semi-Proof

SEM'I-PROOF, noun [semi and proof.] Half proof evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Little used.]

Semi-Protolite

SEMI-PRO'TOLITE, noun [semi and Gr. first and stone.] A species of fossil of a middle nature between substances of primary and those of secondary formation.

Semi-Quadrate

SEMI-QUAD'RATE, noun [Latin semi and quadratus, or quartus, fourth.] An aspect of the SEMI-QUAR'TILE, planets, when distant from each other at half a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, one sign and a half.

Semi-Quintile

SEMI-QUIN'TILE, noun [Latin semi and quintilis.] An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.

Semi-Savage

SEMI-SAV'AGE, adjective [semi and savage.] Half savage; half barbarian.

SEMI-SAV'AGE, noun One who is half savage or imperfectly civilized.

Semi-Sextile

SEMI-SEX'TILE, noun [semi and sextile.] An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.

Semi-Spheric

SEMI-SPHER'IC, adjective [semi and spherical.] Having the figure of a half sphere.

Semi-Spherical

SEMI-SPHER'ICAL,

Semi-Spheroidal

SEMI-SPHEROID'AL, adjective [semi and spheroidal.] Formed like a half spheroid.

Semi-Transept

SEMI-TRAN'SEPT, noun [semi and transept; Latin trans and septum.] the half of a transept or cross aisle.

Semi-Transparency

SEMI-TRANSPA'RENCY, noun Imperfect transparency; partial opakeness.

Semi-Transparent

SEMI-TRANSPA'RENT, adjective [semi and transparent.] Half or imperfectly transparent.

Semi-Vitreous

SEMI-VIT'REOUS, adjective Partially vitreous.

Semi-Vitrification

SEMI-VITRIFICA'TION, noun [semi and vitrification.]

1. The state of being imperfectly vitrified.

2. A substance imperfectly vitrified.

Semi-Vitrified

SEMI-VITRIFIED, adjective [SeeVitrify.] Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Semi-Vocal

SEM'I-VOCAL, adjective [semi and vocal.] Pertaining to a semi-vowel; Half vocal; imperfectly sounding.

Semi-Vowel

SEM'I-VOWEL, noun [semi and vowel.] In grammar, a half vowel, or an articulation which is accompanied with an imperfect sound. Thus el, em, en, though uttered with close organs do not wholly interrupt the sound; and they are called semi-vowels.

Semibreve

SEM'IBREVE, [semi and breve; formerly written semibref.] In music, a note of half the duration of time of the breve. It is the measure note by which all others are regulated. It contains the time of two minims, four crotchets, eights quavers, sixteen semiquavers and thirty-two demisemiquavers.

Semicircle

SEM'ICIRCLE, noun [semi and circle.]

1. The half of a circle; the part of a circle comprehended between its diameter and half of its circumference.

2. Any body in the form of a half circle.

Semicircled

SEM'ICIRCLED, adjective Having the form of a half circle.

Semicircular

SEM'ICIRCULAR,

Semicolon

SEM'ICOLON, noun [semi and colon.] In grammar, and punctuation, the point [; ] the mark of pause to be observed- in reading or speaking, of less duration than the colon, double the duration of the comma, or half the duration of the period. It is used to distinguish the conjunct members of the sentence.

Semific

SEMIF'IC, adjective [Latin semen, seed and facio, to make.] Forming or producing seed.

Semifloret

SEM'IFLORET, noun [semi and floret.] A half floret, which is tubulous at the beginning, like a floret, and afterwards expanded in the form of a tongue.

Semiflosculous

SEMIFLOS'CULOUS, adjective [semi and Latin flosculous, a little flower. Semifloscular is also used, but is less analogical.] Composed of semiflorets; ligulate; as a semiflosculous flower.

Semilunar

SEMILU'NAR, adjective [Latin semi, and luna, moon.] Resembling in form a half moon.

Semilunary

SEMILU'NARY,

Seminal

SEM'INAL, adjective [Latin seminalis, from semen, seed; from the root of sow.]

1. Pertaining to seed, or to the elements of production.

2. Contained in a seed; radical; rudimental; original; as seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

Seminal leaf, the same as seed-leaf.

SEM'INAL, noun seminal state.

Seminality

SEMINAL'ITY, noun The nature of seed; or the power of being produced.

Seminarist

SEM'INARIST, noun [from seminary.] A Romish priest educated in a seminary.

Seminary

SEM'INARY, noun [Latin seminarium, from semen, seed; semino, to sow.]

1. A seed-plant; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; as, to transplant trees from a seminary.

[In this sense, the word is not used in America; being superseded by nusery.]

2. The place or original stock whence anything is brought.

This stratum, being the seminary or promptuary, furnishing matter for the formation of animal or vegetable bodies- Woodward. [Not in use.]

3. Seminal state. [Not in use.]

4. Source of propagation.

5. A place of education; any school, academy, college or univerlity, in which young persons are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for future employments. [This is the only signification of the word in the United States, at least as far as my knowledge

extends.]

6. A Romish priest educated in a seminary; a seminarist.

SEM'INARY, adjective Seminal; belonging to seed.

Seminate

SEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin semino] To sow; to spread; to propagate.

Semination

SEMINA'TION, noun [Latin seminatio.]

1. The act of sowing.

2. In botany, the natural dispersion of seeds.

Semined

SEM'INED, adjective Thick covered, as with seeds.

Seminiferous

SEMINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin semen, seed, and fero, to produce.] Seed-bearing; producing seed.

Seminifical

SEMINIF'ICAL,

Seminification

SEMINIFICA'TION, noun Propagation from the seed or seminal parts.

Semiped

SEM'IPED, noun [semi and Latin pes, a foot.] A half foot in poetry.

Semipedal

SEMIPE'DAL, adjective Containing a half foot.

Semiquaver

SEM'IQUAVER, noun [semi and quaver.] In music, a note of half the duration of the quaver; the sixteenth of the semibreve.

SEM'IQUAVER, verb transitive To sound or sing in semiquavers.

Semitertian

SEMITER'TIAN, adjective [semi and tertian.] Compounded of a tertian and a quotidian ague.

SEMITER'TIAN, noun Am intermittent compounded of a tertian and a quotidian.

Semitone

SEM'ITONE, noun [semi and tone.] In music, half a tone; an interval of sound, as between mi and fa on the diatonic scale, which is only half the distance of an interval between ut and re, or sol and la. It is the smallest interval admitted in modern.

Semitonic

SEMITON'IC, adjective Pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a simitone.

Sempervirent

SEMPERVI'RENT, adjective [Latin semper, always and virens, flourishing.] Always fresh; evergreen.

Sempervive

SEMP'ERVIVE, noun [Latin semper, always, and vivus, alive.] A plant.

Sempiternal

SEMPITERN'AL, adjective [Latin sempiternus; semper, always, and eternus, eternal.]

1. Eternal in futurity; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.

2. Eternal; everlasting.

Sempiternity

SEMPITERN'ITY, noun [Latin sempiternitas.] Future duration without end.

Semster

SEM'STER, noun A seamster; a man who uses a needle. [Not in use.]

Sen

SEN, adverb This word is usedby some of our common people for since. It seems to be a contraction of since, or it is the Sw. sen, Dan. seen, slow, late.

Senary

SEN'ARY, adjective [Latin seni, senarius.] Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

Senate

SEN'ATE, noun [Latin senatus, from senex, old.]

1.An a assembly or council of senators; a body of the principal inhabitants of the city or state,

with a share in the government. The senate of ancient Rome was one of the most illustrious bodies of men that ever bore this name. Some of the Swiss cantons have a senate, either legislative or executive.

2. In the United States, senate denotes the higher branch or house of legislature. Such is the senate of the United States, or upper house of the congress; and in most of the states, the higher and least numerous branch of the legislature, is called the senate. In the U. States, the senate is an elective body.

3. In a looser sense, Any legislative or deliberative boky of men; as the eloquence of the senate.

Senate-House

SEN'ATE-HOUSE, noun A house in which a senate meets, or a place of public council.

Senator

SEN'ATOR, noun

1. A mimber of a senate. In Rome one of the qualifications of a senator was the possession of property to the amount of 80, 000 sesterces, about 7000 pounds sterling, or thirty dollars. In Scotland, the lords of session are called senators of the college of justices.

2. A counselor; a judge or magistrate.

Senatorial

SENATO'RIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a senate; becoming a senator; as senatorial robes; senatorial eloquence.

2. Entitled to elect a senator; as senatorial district.

Senatorially

SENATO'RIALLY, adverb In the manner of a senate; with dignity or solemnity.

Senatorship

SEN'ATORSHIP, noun The office or dignity of a senator.

Send

SEND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive sent.

1. In adjective general sense, to throw, cast or thrust; to impel or drive by force to a distance, either with the hand or with an instrument or by other means. We send a ball with the hand or with a bat; a bow sends an arrow; a cannon sends a shot; a trumpet sends the voice much farther than the unassisted organs of speech.

2. To cause to be conveyed or transmitted; as, to send letters or dispatches from one country to another.

3. To cause to go or pass from place to place; as, to send a messenger from London to Madrid.

4. To commission, autorize or direct to go and act.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jeremiah 23:1.

5. To cause to come or fall; to bestow.

He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:45.

6. To cause to come or fall; to inflict.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation and rebuke. Duet. 28.

7. To propagate; to diffuse.

Cherubic songs by night from neighb'ring hills

Aerial music send. Milton.

To send away, to dismiss; to cause to depart.

To send forth or out, to produce; to put or bring forth; as, a tree sends forth branches.

2. To emit; as flowers send forth their fragrance.

SEND, verb intransitive To dispatch an agent or messenger for some purpose.

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 2 Kings 6:13.

So we say, we sent to invite guests; we sent to inquire into the facts.

To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought; as, to send for a physician; to send for a coach. But these expressions are elliptical.

Sendal

SEN'DAL, noun A light thin stuff of silk or thread. [Not in use.]

Sender

SEND'ER, noun One that sends.

Senega

SEN'EGA, noun A plant called rattlesnake root, of the genus Polygala.

Seneka

SEN'EKA,

Senescence

SENES'CENCE, noun [Latin senesco, from senex, old. See Senate.] The state of growing old; decay by time.

Seneschal

SEN'ESCHAL, noun A steward; an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, who has the superintendance of feasts and domestic ceremonies. In some instances, the seneschal is an officer who has the dispensing of justice, as the high seneschal of England, etc.

Sengreen

SEN'GREEN, noun A plant, the houseleek, of the genus Sempervivium.

Senile

SE'NILE, adjective [Latin senilis.] Pertaining to old age; proceeding from age.

Senility

SENIL'ITY, noun Old age. [Not much used.]

Senior

SENIOR, adjective see'nyor. [Latin senior, comparative of senex, old.] Elder or older; but as an adjective, it usually signifies older in office; as the senior pastor of a church, where there are colleagues; a senior counselor. In such use, senior has no reference to age, for a senior counselor may be, and ofted is the younger man.

SENIOR, noun see'nyor.

1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

2. One that is older in office, or one whose first entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another. Thus a senator or counselor of sixty years of age, often has a senior who is not fifty years of age.

3. An aged person; one of the oldest inhabitants.

A senior of the place replies. Dryden.

Seniority

SENIOR'ITY, noun

1. Eldership; superior age; priority of birth. He is the elder brother, and entitled to the plae of seniority.

2. Priority in office; as the seniority of a pastor or counselor.

Senna

SEN'NA, noun The leaf of the cassia senna, a native of the east, used as a cathartic.

Sennight

SENNIGHT, noun sen'nit. [contracted from sevennight, as fortnight from fourteennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week. The court will be held this sennight, that is, a week from this day; or the court will be held next Tuesday sennight, a week from next Tuesday.

Senocular

SENOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin seni, six, and oculus, the eye.] Having six eyes.

Most animals are binocular, spiders are octonocular, and some are senocular.

Derham.

Sensated

SENS'ATED, adjective [See Sense.] Perceived by the senses. [Not used.]

Sensation

SENSA'TION, noun [from Latin sensus, sentio, to perceive. See Sense.] The perception of external objects by means of the senses.

Sensation is an exertion or charge of the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it, beginning at some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles or organs of sense. The secretion of tears in grief is caused by the sensation of pain. Efforts of the will are frequently accompanied by painful or pleasurable sensations.

Sense

SENSE, noun [from Latin sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.]

1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the body.

SENSE is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.

2. Sensation; perception by the senses.

3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment.

4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception.

5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason.

Opprest nature sleeps;

This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak.

6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning.

He raves; his words are loose

As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden.

7. Opinion; notion; judgement.

I speak my private but impartial sense

With freedom. Roscommon.

8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness.

9. Moral perception.

Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.

L'Estrange.

10. Meaning; important; signification; as the true sense of words or phrases. In interpretation, we are to examine whether words are to be understood in a literal or figurative sense. So we speak of a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, etc.

Common sense, that power of the mind which, by a kind of instinct, or a short process of reasoning, perceives truth, the relation of things, cause and effect, etc. and hence enables the possessor to discern what is right, useful, expedient, or proper, and adopt the best meams to accomplish his purpose. This power seems to be the gift of nature, improved by experience and observation.

Moral sense, a determination of the mind to be pleased with the contemplation of those effections, actions or characters of rational agents, which are called good or virtuous.

Sensed

SENS'ED, participle passive Perceived by the senses. [Not in use.]

Senseful

SENSEFUL, adjective sens'ful. Reasonable; judicious. [Not in use.]

Senseless

SENSELESS, adjective sens'less.

1. Wanting the faculty of perception. The body when dead is senseless; but a limb or other part of the body may be senseless, when the rest of the boky enjoys its usual sensibility.

2. Unfelling; wanting sympathy.

The senseless feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe.

3. Unreasonable; foolish; stupid.

They would repent this their senseless perverseness, when it would be to late.

Clarendon.

4. Unreasonable; stupid; acting without sense or judgement.

Ther were a senseless stupid race. Swift.

5. Contrary to reason or sound judgement; as, to destroy by a senseless fondness the happiness of children.

6. Wanting knowledge; unconscious; with of; as libertiness, senseless of any charm in love.

7. Wanting sensibility or quick perception.

Senselessness

SENSELESSNESS, noun sens'lessness. Unreasonableness; folly; stupidity; absurdity.

Sensibility

SENSIBIL'ITY, noun

1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies; as when we say, a frozen limb has lost its sensibility.

2. Acuteness of sensation; applied to the body.

3. Capacity of acuteness of perception; that quality of the soul which renders it susceptible of impressions; delicacy of feeling; as sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility.

4. Actual feeling.

This adds to my great sensibility. Burke.

[This word is often used in this manner for sensation.]

5. It is sometimes used in the plural.

His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism, than of wounded pride.

Marshall.

Sensibilities unfriendly to happiness, may be acquired. Encyc.

6. Nice perception, so to speak, of a balance; that quality of a balance which renders it movable with the smallest weight, or the quality or state of any insrument that renders it easily affected; as the sensibility of a balance or of a thermometer.

Sensible

SENS'IBLE, adjective

1. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs. We say the body or the flesh is sensible, when it feels the impulse of an external body. It may be more or less sensible.

2. Perceptible by the senses. The light of the moon furnishes no sensible heat.

Air is sensible to the touch by its motion. Arbuthnot.

3. Perceptible or perceived by the mind.

The disgrace was more sensible then the pain. Temple.

4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the mind or the senses.

A man cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

Locke.

5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

If thou wert sensible of courtesy,

I should not make so great a show of zeal. Shak.

6. Having acute intellectual feeling; being easily or strongly affected; as, to be sensible of wrong.

7. Perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

They are now sensible it would have been better to comply, than refuse. Addison.

8. Intelligent; descerning; as a sensible man.

9. Moved by a very small weight or impulse; as, a sensible balance is necessary to ascertain exact weight.

10. Affected by a slight degree of heat or cold; as a sensible thermometer.

11. Containing good sense or sound reason.

He addressed Claudius in the following sensible and noble speech. Henry.

Sensible note, in music, that which constitutes a third major above the dominant, and a semitone beneath the tonic.

SENS'IBLE, noun Sensation; also, whatever may be perceived.

Sensibleness

SENS'IBLENESS, noun

1. Possibility of being perceived by the senses; as the sensibleness of odor or sound.

2. Actual perception by the mind or body; as the sensibleness of an impression on the organs. [But qu.]

3. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception; as the sensibleness of the eye.

4. Susceptibility; capacity of being strongly affected, or actual feeling; consciousness; as the sensibleness of the soul and sorrow for sin.

5. Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.

6. Susceptibility of slight impressions. [See Sensible, No. 9, 10.]

Sensibly

SENS'IBLY, adverb

1. In a manner to be perceived by the senses; perceptibly to the senses; as pain sensibly increased; motion sensibly accelerated.

2. With perception, either of mind or body. He feels his loss very sensibly.

3. Externally; by affecting the senses.

4. With quick intellectual perception.

5. With intelligence or good sense; judiciously. The man converses very sensibly on all common topics.

Sensitive

SENS'ITIVE, adjective [Latin sensitivus, from sensus, sentio.]

1. Having sense or feeling, or having the capacity of perceiving impressions from external objects; as sensitive soul; sensitive appetite; sensitive faculty.

2. That affects the senses; as sensitive objects.

3. Pertaining to the senses, or to sensation; depending on sensation; as sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Sensitive-Plant

SENS'ITIVE-PLANT, noun A plant of the genus Mimosa [mimic, ] so called from the sensibility of its leaves and footstalks, which shrink, contract and fall on being slightly touched.

Sensitively

SENS'ITIVELY, adverb In a sensitive manner.

Sensorial

SENS'ORIAL, adjective Pertaining to the sensory or sensorium; as sensorial faculties; sensorial motion or powers.

Sensorium

SENSO'RIUM, noun [from Latin senus, sentio.]

Sensory

SENS'ORY,

1. The seat of sense; Darwin uses sensorium to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense and the muscles, but also that living principle or spirit of animation which resides throughout the body, without being cognizable to our senses, except by its effects. The canges which occasionally take place in the sensorium, as during exertions of volition, or the sensations of pleasure and pain, he terms sensorial motions.

2. Organ of sense; as double sensories; two eyes, two ears, etc.

Sensual

SENSUAL, adjective [from Latin sensus.]

Pertaining to the senses, as distinct from the mind or soul.

Far as creation's ample range extends.

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

2. Consisting in sense, or depending on it; as sensual appetites, hunger, lust, etc.

3. Affecting the senses, or derived from them; as sensual pleasure or gratification. Hence,

4. In theology, carnal; pertaining to the flesh or body, in opposition to the spirit; not spiritual or holy; evil.

5. Devoted to the gratification of sense; given to the indulgence of the appetites; sewd; luxurious.

No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that on wich sensual men place their felicity. Atterbury.

Sensualist

SENSU'ALIST, noun Aperson given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures.

Sensuality

SENSUAL'ITY, noun Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.

Those pamper'd animals

That rage in savage sensuality. Shak.

They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.

Sensualize

SENS'UALIZE, verb transitive To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; as sensualized by pleasure.

By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized.

Sensually

SENS'UALLY, adverb In a sensual manner.

Sensuous

SENS'UOUS, adjective [from sense.] Tender; pathetic. [Not in use.]

Sent

SENT, preterit tense and participle passive of send.

Sentence

SEN'TENCE, noun [from Latin sententia, from sentio, to think.]

1. In law, a judgement pronounced by a court or judge upon a criminal; a jdicial decision publicly and officially declared in a criminal prosecution. In technical language, sentence is used only for the declaration of judgement against the convicted of a crime. In civil cases, the decision of the court is called a judgement. In criminal cases, sentence is a judgement pronounced; doom.

2. In language not technical, a determination or decision given, particularly a decision that condemns, ar an unfavorable determination.

Let him be sent out lome of Luther's works, that by them we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury.

3. An opinion; judgement concerning a controverted point.

4. A maxim; an axiom; a short saying containing moral instruction.

5. Vindication of one's innocence.

6. In grammar, a period; a number of words containing a complete sense or sentiment, and followed by a full pause. Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, 'the Lord reigns.' A compound sentence two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse,

He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. Pope.

A dark sentence, a saying not easily explained.

SEN'TENCE, verb transitive

1. To pass or pronounce the judgement of a court on; to doom; as, to sentence a convict to death, to transportation, or to imprisonment.

2. To condenm; to doom to punisment.

Nature herself is sentenc'd in your doom. Dryden.

Sentential

SENTEN'TIAL, adjective

1. Comprising sentences.

2. Pertaining to a sentence or full period; as a sentential pause.

Sententious

SENTEN'TIOUS, adjective

1. Abounding with sentences, axioms and maxims; short and energetic; as a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

How he apes his sire,

Ambitiously sententious. Addison.

2. Comprising sentences; as sententious marks.

[This should be sentential.]

Sententiously

SENTEN'TIOUSLY, adverb In short expressive periods; with striking brevity.

Nausicca delivers her judgement sententiously, to give it more weight. Broome.

Sententiousness

SENTEN'TIOUSNESS, noun Pithiness of sentences; brevity with strength.

The Medea I esteem for its gravity and sententiousness. Dryden.

Sentery, and sentry are corrupted from sentinel.

Sentient

SENTIENT, adjective sen'shent. [Latin sentiens, sentio.] That perceives; having the faculty of perception. Man is a sentient being; he possesses a sentient principle.

SEN'TIENT, noun

1. A being or person that has the faculty of perception.

2. He that perceives.

Sentiment

SEN'TIMENT, noun [from Latin sentio, to feel, perceive or think.]

1. Properly. a thought prompted by passion or feeling.

2. In a popular sense, Thought; opinion; notion; judgement; the decilion of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning. Thus in deliberative bodies, every man has the privilege of delivering his sentiments upon questions, motions and bills.

3. The sense, thought or opinion contained in words, but considered as distinct from them. We may like the sentiment, when we dislike the language.

4. Sensibility; feeling.

Sentimental

SENTIMENT'AL, adjective

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense.

Sentimentalist

SENTIMENT'ALIST, noun One that affects sentiment, fine feeling or exquisite sensibility.

Sentimentality

SENTIMENTAL'ITY, noun Affectation of fine feeling or exqisite sensibility.

Sentinel

SENT'INEL, noun [from Latin sentio, to perceive.] In military affairs, a soildier sent to watch or guard an army, camp or other place from surprise, to observe the approach of danger and give notice of it. In popular sense, the word is contracted into sentry.

Sentry

SEN'TRY, noun

1. [See Sentinel.]

2. Guard; watch; the duty of a sentines.

O'er my slumbers sentry keep. Brown.

Sentry-Box

SEN'TRY-BOX, noun A box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.

Sepal

SE'PAL, noun [from Latin sepio.] In botany, the small leaf or part of a calyx.

Separability

SEPARABIL'ITY, noun [from separable.] The quality of being separable, or of admitting separation or disunion.

Separability is the greatest argument of real distinction. Glanville.

Separable

SEP'ARABLE, adjective That may be separated, disjoined, disunited or rent; as the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exsist.

Separableness

SEP'ARABLENESS, noun The quality of being capable of separation or disunion.

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separablenessof a yellow tincture from gold.

Boyle.

Separate

SEP'ARATE, verb transitive [Latin separo.]

1. To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined. The parts of a solid substance may be separated by breaking, cutting or splitting, or by fusion, decomposition or natural dissolution. A compound body may be separated into its constituent parts. Friends may be separated by necessity, and must be separated by death. The prism separates the several kinds of colored rays. A riddle separates the chaff from the grain.

2. To set apart from a number for a particular service.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul. Acts 8:1.

3. To dilconnect; as, to separate man and wife by divorce.

4. To make space between. The Atlantic separates Europe from America. A narrow strait separates Europe from Africa.

To separate one's self, to withdraw; to depart.

Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Genesis 8:1.

SEP'ARATE, verb intransitive

1. To part; to be disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other. The parties separated, and each retired.

2. To cleave; to open; as, the parts of a substance separate by drying or freezing.

SEP'ARATE, adjective [Latin separatus.]

1. Divided from the rest; being parted from another; disjoined; disconnected; used of things that have been united or connected.

2. Unconnected; not united; distinct; used of things that have not been connected.

Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. Hebrews 7:26.

3. Disunited from the body; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

Separated

SEP'ARATED, participle passive Divided; parted; disunited; disconnected.

Separately

SEP'ARATELY, adverb In a separate or unconnected state; apart; distinctly; singly. The opinions of the council were separately taken.

Separateness

SEP'ARATENESS, noun The state of being separate.

Separation

SEPARA'TION, noun [L. separatio.]

1. The act of separating, severing or disconnecting; disjunction; as the separation of the soul from the body.

2. The state of being separate; disunion; disconection.

All the days of his separation he is holy to the lord. Numbers 6:4.

3. The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances; chimical analysis.

4. Divorce; disunion of married persons.

Separatist

SEP'ARATIST, noun One that withdraws from an established church, to which he has belonged; a dissenter; a seceder; a schismatic; a sectary.

Separator

SEP'ARATOR, noun One that divides or disjoins; a divider.

Separatory

SEP'ARATORY, adjective That separates; as separatory ducts. [Little used.]

SEP'ARATORY, noun A chimical vessel for separating liquors; and a surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.

Sepatating

SEP'ATATING, participle present tense Dividing; disjoining; putting or driving asunder; disconecting; decompsing.

Sepawn

SEPAWN', noun A species of food consisting of mial of maiz boiled in water. It is in New York

Sepiment

SEP'IMENT, noun [L. sepimentum, from sepio, to inclose.] A hedge; a fence; something that seperates or defends.

Sepin

SEPIN', and Pennsylvania what hasty-pudding is in New England.

Sepose

SEPO'SE, verb transitive sepo'ze. [L. sepono, sepositus.] To set apart. [Not in use.]

Seposition

SEPOSI''TION, noun The act of setting apart; segregation. [Not in use.]

Sepoy

SE'POY, noun A native of India, employed as a soldier in the service of European powers.

Seps

SEPS, noun [L. from Gr. Cuvier.] A species of venomous eft or lizard. A genus of lizards, the efts, closely resembling the serpents, from which they scarcely differ, expect in their short and often indistinct feet, and the marks of an external auditory oriface.

Sept

SEPT, noun [L. prosapia; or Heb. See Class Sb. No. 23.] A clan, race or family, proceeding from a common progrnitor; used of the races or families in Ireland.

Septangular

SEPTAN'GULAR, adjective [L. septem, seven, and angulus, angle.] Having seven angles or sides.

Septaria

SEPTA'RIA, noun [L. septa, partitions.] A name given to nodules or spheroidal mass of calcarios marl, whose interior present numerous fissures or seams of some crystalized substance, which divide the mass.

September

SEPTEM'BER, noun [L. septem, seven.] The seventh month from march, which was formerly the first month of the year. september is now the ninth conth of the year.

Septempartite

SEPTEM'PARTITE, adjective Divided into seven parts.

Septenary

SEP'TENARY, adjective [L. septenarius, from septem, seven.] Consisting of seven; as a sepenary number.

SEP'TENARY, noun The number seven.

Septennial

SEPTEN'NIAL, adjective [L. septennis; septem, seven, and annus, year.]

1. Lasting or continuing seven years; as septennial parliaments.

2. Happening or returning once in wvery seven years; as septennial elections in England.

Septentrion

SEPTEN'TRION, noun [L. septentrio.] The north or northern regions.

SEPTEN'TRION, [L. septentrionalis] Northern; pertaining to the north.

Septentrional

SEPTEN'TRIONAL

From cold septerion blasts.

Septentrionality

SEPTENTRIONAL'ITY, noun Northerliness. [A bad word.]

Septentrionate

SEPTEN'TRIONATE, verb intransitive To tend northerly. [This word septentrion and its derivatives are hardly anglicized; they are harsh, unnecessary and little used, and may well be suffered to pass into disuse.]

Septfoil

SEPT'FOIL, noun [L. septem and folium; seven leaved.] A plant of the genus Tormentilla.

Septic

SEP'TIC, adjective [Gr. to putrefy.]

Septical

SEP'TICAL,

1. Having power to promote putrefacation. Many experiments were made by Sir John Pringle to ascertain the septic and anteseptic virtues of natural bodies.

2. Proceeding from or generated by putrefaction; as septic acid.

SEP'TIC, noun A substance that promotes the putrefaction of bodies.

Septicity

SEPTIC'ITY, noun Tendency to putrefaction.

Septilateral

SEPTILAT'ERAL, adjective [L. septem, seven and latus, side.] Having seven sides; as a septilateral figure.

Septinsular

SEPTIN'SULAR, adjective [Latin septum, seven, and insula, isle.] Consisting of seven isles; as the septinsular republic of the Ionian isles.

Septuagenary

SEPTUAG'ENARY, adjective [Latin septuagenarius, from septuaginta, seventy.] Consisting of seventy.

SEPTUAG'ENARY, noun A person seventy years of age.

Septuagesima

SEPTUAGES'IMA, noun [Latin septuagesimus, seventieth.] THe third Sunday before Lent, or before

Quadragesima Sunday, supposed to be called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Septuagesimal

SEPTUAGES'IMAL, adjective [supra.] Cosisting of seventy.

Our abriged and septuagesimal age. Brown.

Septuagint

SEP'TUAGINT, noun [Latin septuaginta, seventy; septem, seven, and some word signifying ten.] A Greek version of the Old Testament, so call because it was the work of seventy, or rather of seventy-two interpreters. This translation from the Hebrew is supposed have been made in the reign and by the order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, about two hundred and seventy or eighty years before the birth of Christ.

SEP'TUAGINT, adjective Pertaining to the Septuagint; contained in the Greek copy of the Old Testament.

The Septuagint chonology makes fifteen hundred years more from the creation to Abraham, than the present Hebrew copies of the Bible. Encyc.

Septuary

SEP'TUARY, noun [Latin septum, seven.] Something composed of seven; a week. [Little used.]

Septuple

SEP'TUPLE, adjective [Low Latin septuplex; septum, seven. and plico, to fold.] Seven fold; seven times as much.

Sepulcher

SEP'ULCHER, noun [from Latin sepulchrum, from sepelio, to bury, which seems to be formed with a prefix on the Goth. filhan, to bury.] A grave; atomb; the place in which a dead body of a human being is interred, or a place destined for that purpose. Among the Jews sepulchers were often excavations in rocks.

SEP'ULCHER, verb transitive To bury; to inter; to entomb; as obscurely sepulchered.

Sepulchral

SEPUL'CHRAL, adjective [Latin sepulchralis, from sepulchrum.] Pertaining to burial, to grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as sepulchral stone; a sepulchral statue; a sepulchral inscription.

Sepulture

SEP'ULTURE, noun Burial; internment; the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave.

Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.