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Apprehend via smell, touch, etc.
Answer for the clue "Apprehend via smell, touch, etc. ", 7 letters:
sensate
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Word definitions for sensate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from Late Latin sensatus "gifted with sense," from sensus (see sense (n.)). From 1937 in sociology. As a verb from 1650s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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.