1666 S. Shaw Voice of One crying in Wilderness 124 Now, though I dare not say, that the souls first sensating and entertaining of these passions is sinful.

1868 A. E. Kroeger tr. J. G. Fichte Sci. of Knowl. 198 Both the activity of the object of sensation and of the sensating are to be posited in the Ego.

1888 H. W. Parker Spirit of Beauty 58 Sir John Lubbock's experiments proved nothing but the simple sensating of certain crude colors by bees.

1921 E. E. Thomas Lotze's Theory of Reality 101 The act of experiencing is considered as a sensating of something which is experienced.

1996 A. Haberstro Voice in Speech 3 A tangible sensating of the focal resonance of tone.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) v. iii. 138 Indeed without such an internal sensating Faculty as this is we should never know when our Souls are in conjunction with the Deity.

1681 R. Hooke in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 124 The Retina, or sensating part is capable only of receiving Impressions to a certain Degree of Strength, without being hurt by it.

1884 Trans. Med. Assoc. Alabama 403 In the high sensating brain, as elsewhere in the body, functional action occasions disintegration of structure.

1911 Dietetic & Hygienic Gaz. Sept. 527/1 All these drugs have their peculiar effect upon the conscious brain and the sensating nerve lines.

1976 I. Galdston Psychiatry & Human Condition xxxiii. 431 The wakeful, active, sensating self.

2004 A. Fletcher New Theory Amer. Poetry 27 Whatever disarray surrounds the sensating and even sensual walker.