sensum

American  

[sen-suhm] / ˈsɛn səm /

noun

plural

sensa

1. sense datum.

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sensum British  

/ ˈsɛnsəm /

noun

1. another word for sense datum

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Etymology

Origin of sensum

1915–20; noun use of Latin sēnsum, neuter of sēnsus, past participle of sentīre to feel; see sense

Example Sentences

May, June, 1891      "Est error spretus, quo Langobarda juventus      Errabat, verum loquitur nunc pagina sensum."

From The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes. by Williams, William Klapp

Scriptura non veretur dicere, Deum tradere quosdam homines in sensum reprobum et agere in perniciem.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

Santa Croce speaks of him as "ita ex vulnere concussus, ut primo die sensum fere omnem amiserit."

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Besides a commentary on the book of Sentences, he wrote the Postillae in sacram scripturam juxta quadruplicem sensum, litteralem, allegoricum, anagogicum et moralem, published frequently in the 15th and 16th centuries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

V. "Auctor omnes probationes veritatum externarum metaphysicarum reducit ad sensum communem".

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various