sensualistn.adj.

1604 J. Hanson Time is Turne-coate sig. A3 Book. Yet will Carnalitie, the vsuring Atheist,..and terrene Sensualist, Turne ore my leaues and teare them in despite.

1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 310 It is charged as a foul fault upon those Sensualists..That they had lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xvi. 110 Those pleasures which are highest in the esteem of sensualists.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii. 45 As blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iii. 80/1 Even for the basest Sensualist, what is Sense but the implement of Fantasy?

1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem ix. 176 The sty of the sensualist.

1917 Yale Lit. Mag. June 341 The charm ceases, the rout of Greenwich-Village-y sensualists dissolves, to find no place in..the courageous discipline of war-time.

1988 M. Yorke Spirit of Place viii. 274 The man was privately a self-confessed sensualist, but the public painter was a tight-lipped puritan who shunned any display of passion.

2007 M. Phillips Gods behaving Badly (2008) vi. 32 None of the gods ate mortal food, but Aphrodite, a sensualist by nature, just adored the smell of it.

1852 O. W. Wight tr. V. Cousin Course Hist. Mod. Philos. II. xiii. 138 On which side shall I rank myself, in this great battle of European philosophy in the eighteenth century? Shall I be a sensualist [Fr. sensualiste], an idealist, a skeptic, or a mystic?

1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) 261 That school of philosophers who are called ‘the sensualists’.

1922 Philos. Rev. 31 187 Locke..has been described as an empiricist and sensualist.

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 486 The inductivists, sensualists etc. hold that in knowledge acquisition the special comes before the general.

2006 Mod. Lang. Rev. 101 749 Which of the cognitive processes in the human soul are able to detect moral principles and to decide what is good and what is evil? Two schools of thought, the rationalists and the sensualists, dispute this question.

1839 N. Amer. Rev. July 53 Those of his countrymen and successors..whose habits of thought even appear..wholly unlike those of the great master of the Sensualist school.

1854 tr. L. F. Bungener Voltaire & his Times viii. 146 Bonnet, in philosophy, is sensualist and more than sensualist.

1914 I. Dooman Missionary's Life in Land of Gods ii. 45 Loti paints Japan as a sensualist French artist-sailor would paint it.

1970 M. H. Waddicor Montesquieu & Philos. Nat. Law iv. 66 A summary of the sensualist theory of perception.

2010 Time Out N.Y. 20 May 74/2 A hyperactive, sensualist chef.