Sense: feeling: perceiuing: that one thinketh or hath conceiued in mind: the sense or meaning of any writing. Ex sensibus aote cætera homini tactus, deinde gustus. Plin. Omnis sensus hominum multo antecellit sensibus bestiarum. Cic. Cassa sensu simulachra. Lucr. Images voide of sense. Nullus in te sensus humanitatis. Cicer. There is no sense of curtesle in you, or no sparke of gentlenesse. Accensi sensus. Lucr. Linely senses. Acerrimus sensus, Vide ACER adiect. Integer sensus. Cic. Nitidi sensus. Claud. Timor abstulitmihi omnem sensum. Ouid. Greate feare tooke all sense and feeling from one. Accendere sensus, Vide ACCENDO. Sensum ac vocem auribus accipere miserorum. Quint. To giue eare vnto the miseties that wretched men suffer. Affici sensu doloris. Cic. Corpus affluit sensu. Lucret. The sense of feeling is in all the body. Amittere sensum humanitatis. Oui. To leese al sense of gentlenesse. Auertere sensus infandos non sani pectoris. Se. To putte away a micked fantaste conceiued in the minde. Capere sensus. Lucr. To receiue the power of feeling and other senses. E pectore attonito cesserunt sensus. Lucan. Credere sensibus. Lucret. To beleeue his senses. Deducere sensum mÊbris. Luc To take away sense from, &c. Deperdere vitalem sensum membratim. Lucr. Iucundo sensu fruatur mens. Lucret. Lette the minde enioye pleasantuesse or delectation. Sensus & consilium sugiunt cum re. Ouid. Hee that leeseth his goodes, leeseth his sense and wit. Haurite sensibus. Claud. Sensus inest formicis. Plin. Intendere sensus ad res percipiendas. Cic. Labefactantur sensus. Lucr. Lædere sensus. Lucr. Obstruere sensus. Plin. Orbare sensibus. Cic. Pellunt sensum vox & sonus. Lucr. Præbere sensum & materiam malis. Ouid. To giue matter and occasion to feele his euslles. Reconslatur sensus. Luc. The sense taketh strength againe. Reducere sensum. Claud. To come to himselse againe. Vitalem reddere sensum. Lucr. To giue lifs againe. Titillare sensus. Lucret. Vti sensibus. Lucre. Sensus. Cic. The conceice of our minde. Manus ministra sensus Ouid. The hande serueth to declare in writing that the minde conceineth. Ego illius sensum pulchrè calleo. Terent. I knowe his will and fantasie iolily well. Arcanus sensus. Virg. Sensus communis. Quin. The naturall perceiuing & iudgement that al men haue. Carere communi sensu. Hor. To be as a beast without that sense and ceason that al men hane. Sensus communis. Quint. The iudgement and knowledge of things by common experience of the worlde. Discere sensum communem. Quin. To learne the common vnderstanding of experience. Permodestus sensus. Tacit. Vnus sensus bonorum omnium. Ci. Al good men are of one opinion. Vulgarissimi sensus. Quint. Ad meum sensum. Vide A D præpositionem. Abstrahere sensu mentis, Vide ABSTRAHO. Quem accepi ipse oculis, animoq sensum. huncverè apud vos exponam. Ci. That whiche I haue seene and conceyued in my minde. Conuertere se ad sensum alterius, Vide CONVERTO. Varios sensus expromit aoimus Lucret. The minde vttereth diuers conceits and imaginatious. Fateri alicui suos sensus. Ouid. To confesse to one the conceit of his minde. Gerere sensus abditos. Sen. Iudico de meo sensu. Cice. A falso sensu orta ratio. Lucr Reason proceeding of the salse iudgement of the senses. Ostendere sensum suum. Plau. To declare his wil or mind. Remota sensibus nostris natura deûm. Lucret. Nature diuine cannot be perceiued by out senses, or is beyonde the reach of our senses. Suffugere sensum res dicitur. Lucre. That cannot be percei. ned by mans senses.

To perceyue: to feele: to dnderstande: to iudge: to suppose: to knowe: to be of opinion. Sentio sonitum. Plaut. Varios sentimus odores. Luc. Famem sentire. Liu. To suffer hunger: to be hungrie. Labor non sentitur sedulitate Oui. The great affection and diligence that one hath to doe a thing, maketh that he feeleth not the paine of it. Medicină sentire. Cels. To feele the operation of a medicine. Nec rabidi fiunt, nec fastidium sentiunt. Plin. Neither feele they any lothsomnesse. Cibum non sentiunt. Plin. They feele ns prostte of theyr meate. Ianua sensit clauem. Tibul. Fluuij sensere alnos cauatas. Virg. The riuers felte the little boates. Lætitiam toto pectore sentire. Ouid. To feele a greate inyo in his heart. Sentit cariem. Plin. It wareth mouldie or rotteu. Vetustatem non sentire, Plin. Not to waxe olde. Teredinem sentire dicitur herba, caro, aut res alia. Plini. Sentire. Plaut. To perceiue or vnderstaude. -si me senserit Eum quæritare, nunquam dicet. Terent. Sentire. Cic. To thinke: to be of opinion: to iudge. Rectè sentire. Quint, To be of a right opinion. De dijs immortalibus vera sentit. Cic. Hee is of a good and true opinion concerning the Gods. De amicitia omnes ad vnum idem sentiunt. Cicer. Al bee of one opinion, &c. A me sentiat. Plaut. Let him in his opinion stande with mee or be on my side. Si indices pro causa mea senserint. Gellius. If the indges in their opinion shall fauour my cause. Tecum sentio. I ant of your opinion. Iste baud mecum sentit. Ter. He is not of my minde. Sentite grauiter de aliquo id est male cupere. Cæ. To wish some great cuill co come to one. Malè sentire de aliquo. Quin. To haue an ill opinion of one: to thinke ill of him. Sentiet qui vir Gem. Ter. He shal know what fellow I am. Maturè sentire. Cice. Corpore mhil nisi præsens, & quod adest, sentire possumus: animo autem & præterita & futura. Cice.

I. Physically.

A. In gen., to discern by the senses; to feel, hear, see, etc.; to perceive, be sensible of (syn. percipio).

(a). With acc.: calorem et frigus, Lucr. 1, 496; cf.: duritiem saxi, id. 4, 268; 3, 381 sq.: feram nare sagaci (venaticā), Enn. ap. Fest. p. 177 Müll. (Ann. v. 346 Vahl.): varios rerum odores, Lucr. 1, 298: sucum in ore, id. 4, 617 sq.: suavitatem cibi, Cic. Phil. 2, 45, 115: varios rerum colores, Lucr. 4, 492: sonitum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 69: nil aegri, Lucr. 3, 832: utrumque (calorem et frigus) manu, id. 1, 496: famem, Liv. 25, 13: morbos articularios, Plin. 32, 4, 14, 39.—In mal. part.: sensit delphina Melantho, Ov. M. 6, 120.—Pass.: posse prius ad angustias veniri, quam sentirentur, before they should be observed, Caes. B. C. 1, 67.—

(b). With inf. or an, object-clause: sei movero me seu secari sensero, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 40: sentio aperiri fores. id. Truc. 2, 3, 29: nec quisquam moriens sentire videtur, Ire foras animam, Lucr. 3, 607: sentire sonare, id. 4, 229 Munro.—

(g). Absol.: perpetuo quoniam sentimus, Lucr. 4, 228; 6, 935; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 77: qui (homines) corruant, sed ita, ut ne vicini quidem sentiant, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21.—

b. Of things: pupula cum sentire colorem dicitur album, Lucr. 2, 811 sq. —Absol.: haud igitur aures per se possunt sentire, Lucr. 3, 633: si quis corpus sentire refutat, id. 3, 350; 3, 354; cf. id. 3, 552; 3, 625.—

B. In partic.

1. To perceive the effects (esp. the ill effects) of any thing; to feel, experience, suffer, undergo, endure: sentiet, qui vir siem, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 21: jam curabo sentiat, Quos attentarit, Phaedr. 5, 2, 6: quid ipse ad Avaricum sensisset, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 52; cf. Liv. 45, 28, 6: Centupirini etiam ceterarum civitatum damna ac detrimenta senserunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 45, 108; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 38; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 49, 127: tecum Philippos et celerem fugam Sensi, Hor. C. 2, 7, 10: (Apollinem) vindicem, id. ib. 4, 6, 3: caecos motus orientis austri, id. ib. 3, 27, 22: contracta aequora (pisces), id. ib. 3, 1, 33: prima arma nostra (Salyi), Flor. 3, 2, 3: sentire paulatim belli mala, Tac. H. 1, 89: famem, Liv. 25, 13, 1; Curt. 9, 10, 11: damnum, Liv. 2, 64, 6: cladem belli, id. 35, 33, 6: inopiam rerum omnium, id. 43, 22, 10; 44. 7, 6: incommoda belli, id. 44, 14, 10: lassitudo jam et sitis sentiebatur, id. 44, 36, 2: ubi primum dolorem aliquis sentit, Cels. 6, 7 init.; cf. Lact. 7, 20, 7: cujus ulceris dolorem sentire etiam spectantes videntur, Plin. 34, 8, 19, 59: corporis aegri vitia sentire, Curt. 8, 10, 29: qui in urbe se commoverit ... sentiet, in hac urbe esse consules vigilantes, esse egregios magistratus, etc., Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27; cf. id. Sest. 28, 69; Ov. M. 13, 864.—Absol.: iste tuus ipse sentiet Posterius, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 59.—Of beasts, etc.: oves penuriam sentiunt, Col. 7, 9, 3 sq.: frigus aut aestum, id. 7, 4, 7: praegelidam hiemem omnes pisces sentiunt, Plin. 9, 16, 24, 57.—

b. Of things, to be affected or influenced by: meae istuc scapulae sentiunt, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 25; Liv. 9, 37: transitum exercitus (ager), id. 9, 41, 58: pestilentem Africum (Fecunda vitis), Hor. C. 3, 23, 5: lacus et mare amorem Festinantis eri, id. Ep. 1, 1, 84: alnos fluvii cavatas, Verg. G. 1, 136 al.; cf. Plin. Pan. 31, 5: carbunculi cum ipsi non sentiant ignes, Plin. 37, 7, 25, 92: eadem (gemma) sola nobilium limam sentit, is affected by, id. 37, 8, 32, 109: cum amnis sentit aestatem, et ad minimum deductus est, Sen. Ira, 3, 21, 1: miramur quod accessionem fluminum maria non sentiant, id. Q. N. 3, 4: illa primum saxa auctum fluminis sentiunt, id. ib. 4, 2, 7: totum mare sentit exortum ejus sideris, Plin. 9, 16, 25, 58: caseus vetustatem, id. 11, 42, 97, 242: herba cariem, id. 12, 7, 14, 28: ferrum robiginem, id. 34, 14, 41, 143. —

2. In the elder Pliny, to be susceptible of, to be subject or liable to a disease: morbos, Plin. 9, 49, 73, 156: rabiem, id. 8, 18, 26, 68: cariem, id. 12, 7, 14, 28.—

II. Mentally.

A. Lit., to feel, perceive, observe, notice (syn. intellego).

(a). With acc.: id jam pridem sensi et subolet mihi, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 7; so, quid, id. Truc. 1, 1, 39: quando Aesculapi ita sentio sententiam, I observe, understand, id. Curc. 2, 1, 2: primus sentio mala nostra, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7: numquam illum ne minimā quidem re offendi, quod quidem senserim, that I have perceived, Cic. Lael. 27, 103: ut cui bene quid processerit, multum illum providisse, cui secus, nihil sensisse dicamus, id. Rab. Post. 1, 1: praesentia numina sentit, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 134; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 162; id. C. S. 73 et saep.: de victoriā atque exitu rerum sentire, Caes. B. G. 7, 52: omnia me illa sentire quae dicerem, nec tantum sentire, sed amare, Sen. Ep. 75, 3: illum sensisse quae scripsit, id. ib. 100, 11.—Poet.: ut vestram sentirent aequora curam, Ov. M. 5, 557: nec inania Tartara sentit, i. e. does not die, id. ib. 12, 619.—

(b). With inf. or an obj.-clause: quoniam sentio errare (eum), Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 16: hoc vir excellenti providentiā sensit ac vidit, non esse, etc., Cic. Rep. 2, 3, 5: suspicionem populi sensit moveri, id. ib. 2, 31, 54: quod quid cogitent, me scire sentiunt, etc., id. Cat. 2, 3, 5 sq.: postquam nihil esse pericli Sensimus, Hor. S. 2, 8, 58: non nisi oppressae senserunt (civitates), etc., Just. 8, 1, 2.—

(g). With rel.- or interrog.-clause: scio ego et sentio ipse, quid agam, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 13: jam dudum equidem sentio, suspicio Quae te sollicitet, id. Bacch. 4, 8, 49: quoniam sentio, Quae res gereretur, id. ib. 2, 3, 56: si quid est in me ingenii, quod sentio quam sit exiguum, Cic. Arch. 1, 1: ex quo fonte hauriam, sentio, id. ib. 6, 13: victrices catervae Sensere, quid mens rite, quid indoles ... Posset, Hor. C. 4, 4, 25.—With the indic., in a rel.clause: sentio, quam rem agitis, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 14.—

(d). With de: hostes postea quam de profectione eorum senserunt, became aware of their retreat, Caes. B. G. 5, 32; 7, 52.—(e) With nom. of part. (poet.): sensit terrae sola maculans, Cat. 63, 6: sensit medios delapsus in hostis, Verg. A. 2, 377.—(z) Absol.: vehementer mihi est irata: sentio atque intellego, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 64; cf. id. Trin. 3, 2, 72; id. Mil. 2, 6, 97: mentes sapientium cum e corpore excessissent sentire ac vigere (opp. carere sensu), Cic. Sest. 21, 47; cf. id. Rep. 6, 24, 26: (Aristoteles) paeana probat eoque ait uti omnes, sed ipsos non sentire cum utantur, id. Or. 57, 193; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 52: priusquam hostes sentirent, Liv. 34, 14; 2, 25; 22, 4.— Impers. pass.: non ut dictum est, in eo genere intellegitur, sed ut sensum est, Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 168.—

B. To feel, experience (with acc. of the feeling; rare): quidquid est quod sensum habet, id necesse est sentiat et voluptatem et dolorem, Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 36: tenesne memoriā quantum senseris gaudium, cum, etc., Sen. Ep. 4, 2: non sentire amisso amico dolorem, id. ib. 99, 26; 121, 7: victoriae tantae gaudium sentire, Liv. 44, 44, 3; cf.: segnius homines bona quam mala sentire, id. 30, 21, 6.—

III. Transf. (in consequence of mental perception), to think, deem, judge, opine, imagine, suppose (syn.: opinor, arbitror): si ita sensit, ut loquitur, est homo impurus, Cic. Rep. 3, 21, 32; cf.: jocansne an ita sentiens, id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Rep. 3, 5, 8: fleri potest, ut recte quis sentiat, et id quod sentit, polite eloqui non possit, id. Tusc. 1, 3, 6: humiliter demisseque sentire, id. ib. 5, 9, 24: tecum aperte, quod sentio, loquar, id. Rep. 1, 10, 15; cf.: quod sentio scribere, id. Fam. 15, 16, 3: causa est haec sola, in quā omnes sentirent unum atque idem, id. Cat. 4, 7, 14: idemque et unum sentire, Suet. Ner. 43: sapiens de dis immortalibus sine ullo metu vera sentit, Cic. Fin. 1, 19, 62.—With acc. and inf.: idem, quod ego, sentit, te esse huic rei caput, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 29; cf.: nos quidem hoc sentimus: si, etc.... non esse cunctandum, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 5: voluptatem hanc esse sentiunt omnes, id. Fin. 2, 3, 6 Madv. ad loc.: sensit in omni disputatione id fieri oportere, id. ib. 2, 2, 4; 5, 8, 23; id. Tusc. 5, 28, 82; id. Att. 7, 6, 2; id. Fam. 1, 7, 5: sic decerno, sic sentio, sic affirmo, nullam rerum publicarum conferendam esse cum eā, quam, etc., id. Rep. 1, 46, 70.—With two acc. (very rare): aliquem bonum civem, Cic. Off. 1, 34, 125 (cf. id. Fin. 2, 3, 0, supra, where Orell. omits esse).—With de and abl.: cum de illo genere rei publicae quae sentio dixero, Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65; so, quid de re publicā, id. ib. 1, 21, 34; 1, 38, 60: quid de quo, id. ib. 1, 11: quid gravius de vobis, Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 4; Cic. Rep. 1, 13, 19; cf.: qui omnia de re publicā praeclara atque egregia sentirent, were full of the most noble and generous sentiments, id. Cat. 3, 2, 5: mirabiliter de te et loquuntur et sentiunt, id. Fam. 4, 13, 5: male de illo, Quint. 2, 2, 12: sentire cum aliquo, to agree with one in opinion: tecum sentio, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 24; id. Ps. 4, 2, 3: cum Caesare sentire, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 3; id. Rosc. Am. 49, 142; cf.: nae iste haud mecum sentit, Ter. And. 2, 1, 24: ab aliquo sentire, to dissent from, disagree with: abs te seorsum sentio, judge otherwise, think differently, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52: ut abs te seorsus sentiam De uxoriā re, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.: Gr. Omnia istaec facile patior, dum hic hinc a me sentiat. Tr. Atqui nunc abs te stat, is on my side, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 56 (cf. ab); cf. also: qui aliunde stet semper, aliunde sentiat, Liv. 24, 45, 3.—

B. In partic., publicists' and jurid. t. t., to give one's opinion concerning any thing; to vote, declare, decide (syn. censeo): sedens iis assensi, qui mihi lenissime sentire visi sunt, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9; 11, 21, 2; 3, 8, 9: quae vult Hortensius omnia dicat et sentiat, id. Verr. 2, 2, 31, 76: si judices pro causā meā senserint, decided in my favor, Gell. 5, 10, 14; cf.: in illam partem ite quā sentitis, Vet. Form. ap. Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 20.—Hence, sensa, ōrum, n. (acc. to II. B.).

1. Thoughts, notions, ideas, conceptions (class. but very rare): sententiam veteres, quod animo sensissent, vocaverunt ... Non raro tamen et sic locuti sunt, ut sensa sua dicerent: nam sensus corporis videbantur, etc., Quint. 8, 5, 1: exprimere dicendo sensa, Cic. de Or 1, 8, 32: sensa mentis et consilia verbis explicare, id. ib. 3, 14, 55.—

2. Opinions, doctrines (late Lat.): sensa et inventa Disarii, Macr. S. 7, 5, 4.