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sensorial, a.|sɛnˈsɔərɪəl|
[f. sensori-um or sensory + -al1.]
a. Of or relating to the sensorium. Also, relating to sensation or sensory impressions. Hence senˈsorially adv.
1768Tucker Lt. Nat. I. i. iii. 56 If I can light upon any little hint which may do real service to somebody or other I care not thro' what channels it is conveyed; whether..by agitating the sensorial and motorial ether, or by beginning a succession of perceptions. 1799Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799) 41 The motion of light communicated to the nerve itself produces the sensorial affection. 1851H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (ed. 2) 42 The most instructive case of sensorial illusions on record. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 42 All of Munk's birds seemed totally blind (blind sensorially) after removal of the hemispheres by his operation. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 108 This may form part of a sensory and sensorial hemianæsthesia. 1935Jrnl. Compar. Psychol. XX. 10 A stimulus, a..property of which was its membership in a series which was only in part sensorially present on any one trial. 1962Y. Malkiel in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 22 Multicolored plates..might be useful, especially to the sensorially perceptive etymologist.
†b. Pertaining to the brain as the centre of nervous energy; esp. in sensorial power, vital energy proceeding from the brain to the rest of the system. Obs.
1794E. Darwin Zoon. I. 75 The sensorial power, or spirit of animation,..is perpetually renewed by the secretion or production of it in the brain and spinal marrow. 1822–29Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 292 The stream of nervous power, thus communicated by jets from the sensorial fountain. Ibid. IV. 501 The sensorial powers are those which are dependent on the sensorium or brain as their instrument or origin; and are three in number, the intellectual, the sensific, and the motory. 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 91/2 When there is a predisposition to epilepsy, a cause of either kind..may interrupt the equable transmission of the sensorial power by means of the nerves, and thus occasion a fit. |