sēnsus

   sēnsus ūs, m    [SENT-], a perceiving, observation : utere igitur argumento tute ipse sensūs tui, accept a proof from your own experience : oppidanos a sensu eius (operis) avertere, Cu.— A power of perceiving, perception, feeling, sensation, sense, consciousness : doloris: moriundi sensum celeritas abstulit: (Niobe) posuit sensum, saxea facta, mali, O.— A sense, special sense : ut nec ullus sensus maneat: oculorum: neque oculis neque auribus neque ullo sensu percipi: gustatus, qui est sensus maxime voluptarius: sensūs in capite conlocati sunt.— Feeling, sentiment, emotion, inclination, disposition : ipse in commovendis iudicibus eis ipsis sensibus permoveri: vestri sensūs ignarus: amandi . . . amoris: meus me sensus, quanta vis fraterni sit amoris, admonet: erga nos sensus civium.— An opinion, thought, sense, view, notion : animi: sensus eius de re p.: dissidenti sensūs suos aperire, N.: in his ipsis rebus aliquem sensum habere.— A habit of mind, mode of thinking, notion, taste : volgaris popularisque: haec oratio longe a nostris sensibus abhorrebat.—Esp., with communis, a general mode of thinking, prevailing notion, common insight, common sense : id a consuetudine communis sensūs abhorrere: quae versantur in sensu hominis communi: Communi sensu plane caret, H.: quod in communibus hominum sensibus positum est: ex communibus sensibus ducta oratio, from the usual lines of thought , Ta. — Consciousness, sense, understanding : a mero redeant in pectora sensūs, O.: nisi si timor abstulit omnem Sensum animumque, O.— Sense, idea, meaning, signification : testamenti, Ph.: verba, quibus voces sensūsque notarent, H.: verbi, O.

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sensus N M

feeling, sense