单词 | sensigenous |
释义 | † sensigenousadj. Obsolete. rare. Produced by or producing sensations. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > causing physical sensation sensific1634 pathetic1653 sensigenous1874 aesthesiogenic1879 sensifacient1879 sensificatory1879 1874 T. H. Huxley in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 270/2 It is not to be doubted that the impression excited by those motions which give rise to sensation leaves in the brain molecular changes which answer to what Haller called vestigia rerum, and which that great thinker David Hartley termed ‘Vibratiuncles’, which we might term sensigenous molecular [sic], and which constitute the physical foundation of memory. 1874 T. H. Huxley in Nature 3 Sept. 365/2 The sensation which has passed away leaves behind molecules of the brain competent to its reproduction—‘sensigenous molecules’ so to speak. 1879 T. H. Huxley Hume ii. 73 The sensigenous object, and that masterful entity, the Ego. 1913 A. Hopewell-Smith Introd. Dental Anat. & Physiol. xv. 307 Thus chemical, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and other sensigenous impressions produce only one subjective effect—pain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1874 |
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