sensate

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From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

sensate (comparative more sensate, superlative most sensate)

Perceived by one or more of the senses.
Having the ability to sense things physically.
- 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
  Mendicant was able to postpone its inevitable annihilation for [106:S] with its attempt to flee. But the last of its core vessels hangs before me now; crippled and defeated but still sensate.
Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
- 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:
  To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do

sensate (third-person singular simple present sensates, present participle sensating, simple past and past participle sensated)

(transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.
to sensate light, or an odour
- R. Hooke
  As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.