sensualizev.
/ˈsɛnsjʊəlʌɪz/, /ˈsɛnsjᵿlʌɪz/, /ˈsɛnʃʊəlʌɪz/, /ˈsɛnʃᵿlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)wəˌlaɪz/ 1. † a. intransitive. To live sensually; to indulge in sensuality. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > live sensually [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > live sensually [verb (intransitive)] > entertain sensual notions
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1612 T. Adams Gallants Burden f. 16v First, they visit the Tauerne,..then the Theater, and end in the Stewes... If they were Beasts, they could not better sensualize.
1668 J. Wells Pract. Sabbatarian xlv. 560 If we are covetous, we must not work this day; If we are voluptuous, we must not sensualize this day.
1701 M. Pope Pract. Disc. Loving Kindness God ii. v. 60 Shall I sensualize with the Brutes, when they act according to their Natures, and I below it?
1761 D. Fenning Royal Eng. Dict. To Sensualize, to plunge in sensual pleasures, or to subject the mind to the senses.
1833 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. Nov. 194 The same tendency which disposes them to dwell on particulars, as above stated, leads them also to sensualize, to interpret the doctrines of revelation in their lowest sense.
1847 R. M. Martin China x. 349 The three pontiffs sit in conclave, and sensualize to excess while discovering the time, form, and place of the new incarnation.
b. transitive. To make (a person or thing) sensual; to imbue with sensual habits; to endow with a sensual character.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > make sensual [verb (transitive)]
sensualize1645
1645 W. Constantine 2nd Pt. Interest Eng. 25 Is not the heart delighted in the Service-selfe, but it must be sensualized and amused with the melody of an Organ?
a1687 H. More Lett. on Several Subj. (1694) 79 Nothing can more incrassate, and sensuallize the Intellect, than such an Opinion.
1725 A. Pope tr. R. Le Bossu Gen. View Epic Poem in tr. Homer Odyssey I. p. ix Not to suffer ones self to be sensualiz'd by pleasures.
1793 W. Moore Counsel from Heaven 24 Every thing around us has a tendency to sensualise the mind and drag it down to earth and sense, even in its best efforts.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 202 It is that luxury and ease which sensualize the soul, and make it dull, stupid, hard-hearted.
1873 B. H. Nadal New Life Dawning xi. 274 If the intellect, the spirit of man, become materialized, sensualized, it is incapacitated for such flights of contemplation.
1920 Proc. Internat. Conf. Women Physicians 4 163 It served to give a morbid twist to this sex interest; it..befouled and sensualized the whole atmosphere of their lives.
1957 A. Nin Diary (1976) VI. 87 Later..he seemed voluptuous and I thought: Renate has sensualized him.
2003 R. Crawford in N. Heringman Romantic Sci. vii. 205 The scene is sensualized by images of tender blossoms, verdant foliage, wafting odors, [etc.].
2. transitive. To give a materialistic character to (something immaterial or spiritual).
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)] > make materialistic
carnalize1685
sensualize1775
materialize1820
1775 C. Caraccioli Life Ld. Clive I. 140 The Indian Bramins accuse the Geurs..of having sensualized those ideas [of a Supreme Being].
1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 894/1 Milton is taxed with having too grossly sensualized his supernatural agents.
1832 H. W. Longfellow in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 293 These representations have a tendency to sensualize and desecrate the character of holy things.
1905 Unity (Unity Tract Soc., Kansas City) Sept. 144 He sensualizes all the ‘vessels’ of the Lord and materializes everything.
1988 C. Glaser Uncommon Calling v. 65 Both pagans and early Christians believed in the resurrection of the body, though the first sensualized the experience and the latter spiritualized it.
3.
a. transitive. To explain by reference to sensation; to regard as originating from the senses. Only in philosophical contexts; cf. sensual adj. 5b, sensationalism n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [verb (transitive)] > explain by senses
sensualize1814
1814 Monthly Mag. July 645/1 Let it be remembered by those, who admire this ‘prevailing gentle art’, of sensualising our intellect, that Ovid, in his banishment, was sustained by no self-respecting consciousness.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xiii. 506 Locke sensualised the conception of the understanding.
1908 Rev. Theol. & Philos. 3 456 The danger of rationalising sense has turned into the opposite danger of sensualising thought.
1960 L. W. Beck Comm. Kant's Critique Pract. Reason iii. xiv. 277 If we try to ‘sensualize’ the conception of God, we weaken its moral force by mixing empirical concepts drawn from human nature with the purely rational concepts of a moral being in general.
2008 S. Buckle in E. S. Radcliffe Compan. Hume (2011) i. 31 Whereas Locke had sought to show the possibility of materialism by ‘sensualizing’ the intellect, Hume goes further and seeks to abolish it.
b. transitive. To convert into, or identify with, something perceptible by the senses. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)]
immerse1605
clod1610
material1643
corporify1644
terrestrify1646
corporize1691
materialize1710
terrestrialize1829
reify1854
thingify1871
sensualize1884
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > perceive [verb (transitive)] > sensually
sensualize1884
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 112 I have created my own difficulty by first sensualizing the dialectic percept, Cause.
2013 D. Trippett Wagner's Melodies vi. 339 He believed could encode an intuitive emotional content sensualized into sound.
Derivatives
ˈsensualized adj.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > given sensuous character
sensualized1690
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > made sensual
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1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 165 A sensualized Soul would carry such Appetites with her thither for which she could find no suitable Objects.
?1760 Great Love & Tenderness God iv. 98 The Old-Man of each Sinner, that is, the Vile Flesh and sensualized Soul,..should be separated from the redeemed New-Man or rational Spirit.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 40 Virtue may, possibly, add to the pleasure..a spiritual complacency, of which in your present sensualized state you can form no idea.
1884 Catholic World Apr. 49 We move through worlds of enchantment from childhood to age, and it is only the dulness of a sensualised nature which hides from us their glory.
1907 J. F. Martin Two in One xi. 204 In their sensualized state, to have allowed the affections to lead and govern would have been for the race to have forever continued its downward course.
1979 J. Wilson Octavio Paz iii. 112 Woman is a naturalised archetype, the central part of a sensualised nature.
2002 P. Slotkin tr. A. Ferro In Analyst's Consulting Room 139 She spoke in a very sensualized way about sex.
ˈsensualizing adj.
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1693 L. Smith Conversat. in Heaven xx. 303 Those sensualizing Tyes of Corrupt Inclinations.
1776 W. Dalgliesh True Sonship of Christ Investigated vi. 128 The joint-influence of a sensualizing nature.
1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 176 The constant reproach of the sensualising Pagans was, that Christians had in their strange worship, neither altars nor sacrifices.
1912 H. I. Stern Socialist Catech. 40 The sensualizing economic and mental workings of the system in general.
2015 C. Carter Rhetorical Exposures ii. 51 Not even men escape Agee's sensualizing tendencies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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