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Sensible   /sˈɛnsəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Sensible  adj.  
1.
Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; sensible resistance. "Air is sensible to the touch by its motion." "The disgrace was more sensible than the pain." "Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things."
2.
Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible. "Would your cambric were sensible as your finger."
3.
Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer. "With affection wondrous sensible."
4.
Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded. "He (man) can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it." "They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse."
5.
Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
6.
Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise. "Now a sensible man, by and by a fool."
Sensible note or Sensible tone (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone.
Sensible horizon. See Horizon, n., 2. (a).
Synonyms: Intelligent; wise. Sensible, Intelligent. We call a man sensible whose judgments and conduct are marked and governed by sound judgment or good common semse. We call one intelligent who is quick and clear in his understanding, i. e., who discriminates readily and nicely in respect to difficult and important distinction. The sphere of the sensible man lies in matters of practical concern; of the intelligent man, in subjects of intellectual interest. "I have been tired with accounts from sensible men, furnished with matters of fact which have happened within their own knowledge." "Trace out numerous footsteps... of a most wise and intelligent architect throughout all this stupendous fabric."


noun
Sensible  n.  
1.
Sensation; sensibility. (R.) "Our temper changed... which must needs remove the sensible of pain."
2.
That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible. "Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper."
3.
That which has sensibility; a sensitive being. (R.) "This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles."





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"Sensible" Quotes from Famous Books



... discoveries as forthwith made his name the best known in Europe. He found curious irregular black spots on the sun, revolving round it in twenty-seven days; hills and valleys on the moon; the planets showing discs of sensible size, not points like the fixed stars; Venus showing phases according to her position in relation to the sun; Jupiter accompanied by four moons; Saturn with appendages that he could not explain, but unlike the other planets; the Milky Way ...
— History of Astronomy • George Forbes
... many pithy and sprightly tales, each sharply hitting some social absurdity or social vice. We recommend the book heartily after having read the three chapters on 'Taking a Newspaper.' If all the rest are as sensible and interesting as these, and doubtless they are, the book is well ...
— Four Young Explorers - Sight-Seeing in the Tropics • Oliver Optic
... emotions while we enjoyed the glowing colours of the opening day, the odours of our shrubs, the concerts of our birds! Now, at the source of beauty, from which flows all that is delightful upon earth, my soul intuitively sees, tastes, hears, touches, what before she could only be made sensible of through the medium of our weak organs. Ah! what language can describe those shores of eternal bliss which I inhabit for ever? All that infinite power and celestial bounty can confer, that harmony which results from friendship with numberless beings, ...
— Paul and Virginia • Bernardin de Saint Pierre
... arrangement of pure line, in labyrinthine intricacy, through which the grace of order may give continual clue. The entire body of ornamental design, connected with writing, in the Middle Ages seems as if it were a sensible symbol, to the eye and brain, of the methods of error and recovery, the minglings of crooked with straight, and perverse with progressive, which constitute the great problem of human morals and fate; and when I chose the ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin
... nick-nacks is unquestioned. Ornaments, I admit, are ornamental; and works of art afford intellectual amusement of the highest order. But then perfection is their only merit; and a crack or a flaw destroys all the pleasure of a sensible beholder. Yet I have not a statue that is not a torso, nor a Chelsea china shepherdess with her full complement of fingers. I have not a vase with both its handles, a snuff-box that performs its waltz correctly, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 382, July 25, 1829 • Various


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