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sensibly, adv.|ˈsɛnsɪblɪ|
Also 6 sensybly, sensiblie, senciblie, 6–7 sencibly; (uncontracted form: 7 sensiblely.).
[f. sensible a. + -ly2.]
1. a. In a manner perceptible to the senses; so far as can be perceived.
c1425St. Mary of Oignies i. x. in Anglia VIII. 146/38 So grete froste þat..in þe holy chalys, while þe preste songe, wyne fros sensibly & sodeynly in to yce. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 H ij, Some parte of the medycament wyll flowe by lytel & lytel in to y⊇ artere sensibly and manyfestly. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. ii. 122 He is your brother Lords, sensibly fed Of that selfe blood that first gaue life to you. 1653in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 228 The maine pillars did bulge out, and sensiblely shake. 1705Addison Italy, Ferrara 114 From Venice to Ancona the Tide comes in very sensibly at its stated Periods. 1850Bohn's Hand-bk. Games (1867) 561 If a ball is made to go to the brink of a pocket, and after sensibly standing still, should fall into it, the striker wins nothing. 1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 36 Lines drawn from various points on the Earth to Pollux would all appear sensibly parallel.
b. In an appreciable degree.
1675–6Boyle in Phil. Trans. No. 122. 522 The two Ingredients were easily mingled, and grew not only sensibly but considerably hot [in the palm of his hand]. 1728tr. Newton's Treat. Syst. World 123 Though those rays are not able sensibly to move the gross substances in our parts. 1762Ld. Kames Elem. Crit. xviii. §4 (1774) II. 151 The pause also is sensibly affected by the position of the accent. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New Eng. (1823) IV. 358 At the end of two years, this currency, in consequence of enormous emissions, began sensibly to depreciate. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 278 The sea is said to be sensibly decreasing in size.
†2.
a. With self-consciousness, consciously.
b. Of feeling: Acutely, intensely. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 288 b, And than he begynneth to loue sensybly: and than first he feleth that he loueth God. 1586B. Young Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 176, I doe sensiblie feele all the superfluous humours (engendred by solitarinesse) consumed quite, and spent in mee. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §58. 296 No marvell then that they who..rashly thrust themselves into warre, be made sensibly to feele the smart of their folly. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. (1900) 133 When he doth sensibly, and with heart-humiliation thus think, then hath he good thoughts of his own ways. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 114 It was now that I began sensibly to feel how much more happy this Life I now led was..than the wicked..Life I led all the past Part of my Days. 1805–6Cary Dante, Inf. vi. 110 As each thing to more perfection grows, It feels more sensibly both good and pain.
†3.
a. So as to be easily understood or to impress the feelings; clearly, strikingly. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 226 Vnblameable affections,..hath not their generation or issue, from the enticementes of Venerie, I meane (to speake more sensibly) from carnall pleasures. 1693Norris Pract. Disc. (1722) IV. Pref. 2, I know not whether I have met with any thing that has struck me more Sensibly, or made a quicker Impression upon my Spirit than a certain Reflexion which [etc.]. a1700Evelyn Diary 20 Dec. 1673, But the description..delighted me, so sensibly they spake of the excellent aire and climate in respect of our cloudy and splenetic country.
†b. So as to be keenly felt. Obs.
1655J. Jane in Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 355 Never was the vanity of pretenders to wisdom and government more apparantly layed open to reproach..nor the people requited for their murmuringes more sensibly then ours have beene.
4. With good sense, intelligently; judiciously, reasonably.
1755Johnson, Sensibly, in low language, judiciously, reasonably. 1828–32in Webster s.v., The man converses very sensibly on all common topics. 1898G. B. Shaw Candida i. 103 Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? a1912Mod. He behaved sensibly under the circumstances. 1932D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase i. 9 She was dressed sensibly in a short skirt and thin sweater. 1970N. Marsh When in Rome iii. 51 They wore sensibly shady hats.
Comb.1899Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 3/2 A sensibly-written book, which will serve a useful purpose. |