sensum

American  

[sen-suhm] / ˈsɛn səm /

noun

• sensa
  plural

1. sense datum.

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sensum British  

/ ˈsɛnsəm /

noun

1. another word for sense datum

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sensa
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sensum

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sensum sensa

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

I do not know that any one has answered Schneider's question: Quidni sensum eundem servavit homo religiosus in hinnulis?

From The Sportsman by Henry Graham Dakyns

Or else would you have an Expositorem To declare it in English per sensum planiorem?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt

Appended to his "Opera Omnia," published in 1707, there is a very needful "Clavis ad obscuriorum sensum referendum," in which the following passage occurs.—

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Admonishing, const. of verbs of, 207. adr- = arr-, 9, 2. ads- = ass-, 9, 2. ad sensum, constr.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

The latter gives a description of the mountain in the form of a dialogue, which Ferrara characterises as "erudito, e grecizzante, ma sensa nervi."

From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by G. F. Rodwell