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sensualize, v.|ˈsɛnʃuːəlaɪz|
[f. sensual a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To render sensual.
a. To imbue with sensual habits or dispositions; to inure to vicious indulgence.
a1687H. More Lett. (1694) 79 Nothing can more incrassate, and sensuallize the Intellect, than such an Opinion. 1725Pope's Odyss. I. View Epic Poem 10 Not to suffer ones self to be sensualiz'd by pleasures. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 202 It is that luxury and ease which sensualize the soul, and make it dull, stupid, hard-hearted. 1868F. E. Paget Lucretia 302 It is no light crime to aid in sensualizing the character of a whole people.
b. To give a sensuous or materialistic character to.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 570 The Indian bramins and parsees accuse the gaurs..of having sensualized those ideas [of a Supreme Being]. 1828De Quincey Rhetoric Wks. 1859 XI. 43 Milton is taxed with having too grossly sensualized his supernatural agents. 1833Longfellow Outre-Mer Pr. Wks. 1886 I. 194 These representations have a tendency to sensualize and desecrate the character of holy things.
c. To explain by reference to sensation; to regard as originating from the senses.
1838Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. I. 128/2 note, Which, in place of sensualizing intellect, intellectualizes sense. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xiii. 506 Locke sensualised the conception of the understanding.
d. To convert into or identify with something cognizable by the senses.
1884[Laurie] Metaph. Nova & Vet. 23 The percept thus becomes sensualized as an articulate sound. Ibid. 112, I have created my own difficulty by first sensualizing the dialectic percept, Cause.
2. intr.
a. To live sensually.
1612T. Adams Gallant's Burden 16 b, First, they visit the Tauerne,..then the Theater, and end in the Stewes... If they were Beasts, they could not better sensualize.
b. To entertain sensual notions.
1846G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 176 The constant reproach of the sensualising Pagans was, that Christians had in their strange worship, neither altars nor sacrifices.
Hence ˈsensualized ppl. a.
1690Norris Beatitudes vi. (1694) 167 A sensualized Soul would carry such Appetites with her thither for which she could find no suitable Objects. 1824Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 33 Virtue may, possibly, add to the pleasure..a spiritual complacency, of which in your present sensualized state you can form no idea. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 616 This was a lesson which our Lord sought to impress upon the degenerate and sensualized Jews of his day. |