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Sensate

Sensate \Sen"sate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sensating.] [See Sensated.] To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

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

Sensate

Sensate \Sen"sate\, Sensated \Sen"sa*ted\, a. [L. sensatus gifted with sense, intelligent, fr. sensus sense. See Sense.] Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.]
--Baxter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sensate

c.1500, from Late Latin sensatus "gifted with sense," from sensus (see sense (n.)). From 1937 in sociology. As a verb from 1650s.

Wiktionary
sensate
  1. 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. v

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

WordNet
sensate

adj. having physical sensation; "sensate creatures"

Usage examples of "sensate".

Here were stored Arabian secrets uncynical and sensate, books tattooed in pain-ink, buds turning open, suburb flagstones, broken-down gardens, a tin barrow red hot in the sun, insects in the dusk-fluctuating wind flying against shallow water, a mind where river floor scenes flutter unseen, all in the worming walls of the Keep.

Sensate clitorises made by cropping and rerouting bits of the glans penis.

Years ago when LSD and other so-called psychedelics were new and popular with the beatnik groups for 'kicks,' it was frequently postulated that minds under their influence might actually be sensating occurrences in some other frame of existence.