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sensive, a.|ˈsɛnsɪv|
[a. OF. sensif, ad. Latin type *sensīvus, f. sens-, sentīre to feel: see -ive.]
1. Having the function of sensation or sensuous perception.
† sensive soul = sensible or sensitive soul: see those adjs.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices Pref., Men of middle degree, like the sensiue soule shall attend to affaires and sciences more liberale. 1578Banister Hist. Man viii. 104 b, Galen sayth that for three principall endes Nature hath made such distribution of Nerues in the body. The first was to giue feelyng vnto the sensiue instrumentes. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1598) 82 Palmes doe reioyce to be ioynd by the match of a male to a female, And shall sensiue things be so sencelesse as to resist sence? 1612Chapman Rev. Bussy d'Ambois v. v. 134 Learnedst men hold that our sensiue spirits A little time abide about the graues Of their deceased bodies. 1865J. Grote Explor. Philos. i. 13 The harmonizing together of our active powers, our sensive powers, and our various individual experience.
†2. Capable of sensation. Obs.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. iii, The infection Which, as a subtle vapor, spreads it selfe, Confusedly, through euery sensiue part. |