单词 | interior sense |
释义 | > as lemmasinterior sense 13. Frequently in plural. A faculty or power of the mind or (in early use) the soul, such as imagination, reflection, memory, etc., often explicitly or implicitly contrasted with the bodily senses. Frequently with a preceding modifying adjective, as inner sense, interior sense, internal sense, inward sense. Cf. moral sense n. at moral adj. Compounds 2. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > [noun] > as opposed to matter sense1519 mind1745 spiritualism1834 1519 D. James tr. M. Civilis in tr. Catherine of Siena Orcharde of Syon (de Worde) sig. iij This booke is not ordeyned for to delyte & please the eeres & the outwarde senses, but to instructe the soule, and to comforte the inwarde senses. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. C. de Seyssel in Thucydides Peloponnesian War Prol. f. viv That is very harde,..for to wythdrawe all oure senses [Fr. sentemens] of the soule, Ioyned wyth them of the body..and to apply them..to the contemplatyon of thynges spyrytuall. ?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. Tiiij Knowing that he had to exercise his fancie and other interior senses [Fr. sens interieurs]. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 102 Not sensibly champing it with their teeth but partaking it by the sence of the soule. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. i. 38 This Source of Ideas, every Man has wholly in himself: And though it be not Sense, as having nothing to do with external Objects; yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be call'd internal Sense. But as I call the other Sensation, so I call this Reflection. 1729 W. Law Serious Call xiv. 256 They would soon see, that the spirit of devotion was like any other sense or understanding. 1779 Mirror No. 48. ⁋3 The truth of perception, in our internal senses, employed in morals and criticism. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 28 Sept. 107 (note) His sensations, and impressions, whether of his outward senses, or the inner sense of imagination. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. 10 All the senses, if you might so call them, of the soul..that is, the affections and the perceptions. 1946 M. E. Boylan This Tremendous Lover (1947) ix. 117 That internal sense which is called the imagination, tries to form some corresponding picture or phantasm of the same object. 1976 D. N. Robinson Intellect. Hist. Psychol. vii. 209 Reflection..is an internal sense able to examine the deposited sensations in the larger context of our general, emotional state. 2013 R. Pinsky Singing School iv. 152 In Burton's premodern psychology Memory, too, is an inward sense. < as lemmas |
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