单词 | sensitive virtue |
释义 | > as lemmassensitive virtue sensitive virtue n. [after post-classical Latin virtus sensitiva (13th cent. in a British source); compare Middle French vertu sensitive (second half of the 14th cent.)] now historical and rare the capacity for, or power of, sensation. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 126 (MED) One forsoþ in þe first organe as in cristalloide beyng pacient, anoþer in þe censitif vertue [?c1425 Paris felynge vertue; L. sensitiua virtute] descendyng fro þe brayne by þe nerue optic. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 13v (MED) Þe senewis..han boþe vertu motif & sensitif, but summe more & summe lasse. 1576 T. Hill Moste Pleasaunte Arte Interpretacion of Dreames (new ed.) sig. Ciiiiv The iudgement..of the vertu intellectiue concurreth with a sensitiue vertue. 1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. v. 30 The Viscera of Concoction, receive..from the flame of the Blood..a motive and sensitive virtue. 1889 E. H. Dering tr. M. Liberatore On Universals iii. 83 The sensitive virtue of the brute is not sensible of Being. 2007 E. Lombardi Syntax of Desire 292 The intellect commands the organs of the sensitive virtue to express the concept which the intellect conceived. < as lemmas |
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