| 单词 | sensible capacity |
| 释义 | > as lemmassensible capacity 6. Designating the faculty of sensation, as †sensible capacity, sensible faculty, sensible virtue. Cf. sensitive adj. 1a. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > faculty of sensation sensible virtuea1398 sensualityc1405 sensitivec1487 sense1553 sensible capacity1593 sentient1603 sensibility1610 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iii. xii. 99 The vertu sensibile þat meueþ is departid aþre. On partie hatte naturalis and þe oþir vitalis and þe þridde animalis. c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 716 With [read Whiche] vertu namyd ys sensible, And is, as y reherse kan, Yove to beste and eke to man. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vi. 58 Beastes are in sensible capacitie as ripe euen as men themselues, perhaps more ripe. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxxi. 290 Whilst a man sleepeth all motive and sensible faculties seem to be idle. 1747 T. Cradock Two Serm. 10 To me it is the greatest Wonder in the World, that any Man of common Sense can be so blinded, as to follow and support a Religion, that gives the Lie to every sensible Faculty about him. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 337 Quantities, of whose equality or inequality we can judge with sufficient accuracy by help of our sensible faculties alone. 1981 A. A. Sachedina Islamic Messianism 214 (note) The knowledge attained by the sensible faculty is different from that attained by experience. 2015 I. Fay Health & City i. 36 Whilst sweet smells might restore a person's senses, the sensible virtue (that is, the power rooted in the brain which governed the faculties of vision, hearing, olfaction, tasting and touch) risked being ‘corupte[d] and greved by stynkynge smelles’. < as lemmas |
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