sensualize

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sensualise

Etymology edit

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sensualize (third-person singular simple present sensualizes, present participle sensualizing, simple past and past participle sensualized)

(transitive) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas Harvey Skinner and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Religion of the Bible: In Select Discourses
  By that one neglect [of prayer], thy thoughts are sensualized.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
  Not to suffer oneself to be sensualized by pleasures
- 1993, Scott C. Ratzan, Aids: Effective Health Communication For The 90s:
  normalizing and sensualizing condom use may be of great benefit

Derived terms edit

sensualization

References edit

“sensualize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Verb edit

sensualize

inflection of sensualizar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative