sensorialadj.

1742 J. Martyn tr. W. Harris Treat. Acute Dis. Infants 79 Also that they [sc. Acids] greatly injure the sensorial Nerves [L. nervis sensoriis].

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. iii. 56 If I can light upon any little hint which may do real service to somebody or other I care not thro' what channels it is conveyed; whether..by agitating the sensorial and motorial ether, or by beginning a succession of perceptions.

1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 41 The motion of light communicated to the nerve itself produces the sensorial affection.

1815 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 105 82 We know the peculiar office of the brain, by observing what functions are lost by its removal, the sensorial functions.

1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) 42 The most instructive case of sensorial illusions on record.

1917 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 921 What is innate in the poet is a certain refinement of the sensorial organs.

1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice ii. 261 Perhaps..he had been suffering from some sort of sensorial disturbance. Was he being systematically drugged?

2000 S. Biasoli in N. Lameire & R. L. Mehta Complications Dialysis xxxi. 573/1 Patients with chronic renal failure may or may not develop symptoms of UE [= uremic encephalopathy] (ranging from mild sensorial clouding to tremors followed by delirium and coma).

2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs ii. 76/2 A wide range of even more specialized structures (filoplumes, bristles, and others that are primarily involved in sensorial functions) also exist.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 75 The sensorial power, or spirit of animation,..is perpetually renewed by the secretion or production of it in the brain and spinal marrow.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 456 The sensorial powers are those which are dependent on the sensorium or brain as their instrument or origin; and are three in number, the intellectual, the sensific, and the motory.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 317/1 While the Brunonian controversy raged round such myths as ‘nervous excitability’ and ‘sensorial power’, the battle of stimulation of to-day was fought out by Anstie and his opponents in the fair field of physical investigation.

2005 R. Simili in C. U. M. Smith & R. Arnott Genius E. Darwin xi. 156 The spirit of animation which, according to Darwin, pervades the realm of living beings, is defined not only in terms of sensorial power.

1834 S. Turner Sacred Hist. World II. ix. 159 There is such an external world daily before us, which we have had no share in producing, and it is thus an evidence sensorially to us, that there is, without us, an intelligent, contriving and most mighty Power, who has visibly been exerting His omnipotence in this respect for our use.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 42 All of Munk's birds seemed totally blind (blind sensorially) after removal of the hemispheres by his operation.

1962 Y. Malkiel in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 22 Multicolored plates..might be useful, especially to the sensorially perceptive etymologist.

2002 J. Marais in P. Winterhalter & R. L. Rouseff Carotenoid-derived Aroma Compounds xx. 273 The purpose of a series of studies was..to apply this knowledge in restricting the occurrence of TDN [= 1,1,6-trimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene] in wine to sensorially acceptable limits.