sensualize

American  

[sen-shoo-uh-lahyz] / ˈsɛn ʃu əˌlaɪz /

especially British, sensualise

verb (used with object)

sensualized, sensualizing

1. to render sensual.

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Other Word Forms

• sensualization
  noun
• unsensualized
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of sensualize

First recorded in 1605–15; sensual + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sensualize sensualized sensualizing

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

How could men who bowed down before art as an idol, and worshipped it as an ultimate end, and thus sensualized it, represent these holy mysteries, into which angels desired to look?

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In this one sentence is contained the whole secret of profligacy; and profligacy is the same as cynicism, only it is cynicism sensualized.

From Is Life Worth Living? by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

That which begins in the heart ennobles the whole animal being, but that which begins in the inferior departments of our being is the most entire degradation and sensualizing of the soul.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William

Historic facts bear witness alike to the bloodlessness of the exclusive and the sensualizing of the commercial elements, when either gain the upper hand in control of the dramatic output.

From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton

Only when this monopolizing, enslaving, sensualizing impression has gone by, may what had been a point of pained and quivering animality expand once more to the dimensions of a human soul.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various