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SENS, a town of France, chef-lieu of an arrondissement in the department of Yonne, lies on the right side of the Yonne near its confluence with the Vanne, and on the railway from Paris to Lyons, 70 miles south-east of the former city at the intersection of the line from Orleans to Troyes. It derives its importance from its antiquity and its archiepiscopal see. The cathedral of St Étienne occupies the site of an ancient temple on which St Savinian is said to have built, at the close of the 3d century, a little church consecrated to the Virgin. The present Gothic cathedral, erected between 1122 and 1168, subsequently underwent alteration in the 13th century and again under Louis XII. The west front measures 154 feet in breadth; the middle portal has good sculptures, representing the parable of the virgins and the story of St Stephen. The right-hand portal contains twenty-two remarkable statuettes of the prophets, which have suffered considerable injuries. Above this portal rises the stone tower, decorated with armorial bearings and with statues representing the principal benefactors of the church. The bells in the campanile, by which the tower is surmounted, enjoyed immense reputation in the Middle Ages; the two which still remain, La Savinienne and La Potentienne, weigh respectively 15 tons 7 cwts and 13 tons 13 cwts. The left portal is adorned with two bas-reliefs, Liberality and Avarice, as well as with the story of John the Baptist. The portal on the north side of the cathedral is one of the finest examples of French 16th-century sculpture. Glass windows of the 12th to the 16th century are preserved, some of them representing the legend of St Thomas of Canterbury. Among the interior adornments are an altarpiece finely carved in stone, the tomb of the dauphin (son of ...Louis XV.) and his consort, Marie Josèphe of Saxony, one of the masterpieces of Coustou, and bas-reliefs from the mausoleum of Cardinal Duprat. The treasury contains a fragment of the true cross presented by Charlemagne, and the vestments of St Thomas of Canterbury. It was in the cathedral of Sens that St Louis, in 1234, married Marguerite of Provence, and five years later deposited the crown of thorns. The official buildings of the cathedral, dating from the 13th century, have been restored by Viollet-le-Duc. The old judgment-hall and the dungeons had remained intact; in the first story is the synod hall, vaulted with stone and lighted by beautiful grisaille windows. A Renaissance structure connects the buildings with the archiepiscopal palace, which also dates from that period. The oldest of the other churches of Sens is St Savinian, the foundation of which dates from the 3d century, while the crypt is of the early part of the 11th, and the upper portions of the bell-tower of the first years of the 13th. The contents of the museum of sculptured stones have been mainly derived from the old fortifications, which were themselves constructed during barbarian invasion from the ruins of public monuments. The only town gate still preserved is that known as the dauphin’s (1777). In the public library are a number of MSS. and a famous missal with ivory covers. The chemist Thenard has his statue in the town. The population in 1881 numbered 13,440.
Sens, when the capital of the Senones, one of the most powerful peoples of Gaul, bore the name of Agenticum. It was not finally subdued by the Romans till after the defeat of Vercingetorix. On the division of Gaul into seventeen provinces under the emperor Valens, Agenticum became the metropolis of the 4th Lugdunensis. Theatres, circuses, amphitheatres, triumphal arches, and aqueducts were all built in the town by the Romans. It was the meeting point of six great highways. The inhabitants, converted to Chris tianity by the martyrs Savinian and Γotentian, held out against the Alemanni and the Franks in 356, against the Saracens in 731 or 738, and finally against the Normans in 886,—the last having besieged the town for six months. At the commencement of the feudal period Sens was governed by counts, who had become hereditary towards the middle of the 10th century; and the contests of these counts with the archbishops or with their feudal superiors often led to much bloodshed and disaster. Several councils were held at Sens, notably that at which St Bernard and Abelard met. The burgesses in the middle of the 12th century formed a defensive association which carried on war against the clergy, and Philip Augustus restored the commune. In the ardour of its Catholicism Sens massacred the Protestants in 1562, and it was one of the first towns to join the League. Henry IV. did not effect his entrance till 1594, and he then deprived the town of its privileges. In 1622 Paris, hitherto suffragan to Sens, was made an archbishopric, and the bishoprics of Chartres, Orleans, and Meaux were transferred to the new jurisdiction. In 1791 the archbishopric was reduced to a bishopric of the department of Yonne. Suppressed in 1801, the see was restored in 1807 with the rank of archbishopric. The town was occupied by the invaders in 1814 and 1870-71.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 665
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Perceived by the senses. [ Not used .]
Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
1. The perception of external objects by means of the senses.
2. Sensation is an exertion or charge of the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it, beginning at some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles or organs of sense. The secretion of tears in grief is caused by the sensation of pain. Efforts of the will are frequently accompanied by painful or pleasurable sensations .
1. An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
2. A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
3. A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.
2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.
3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
1. The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.
2. The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.
1. An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the body.
2. SENSE is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight , hearing , touch , smell , and taste .
3. Sensation; perception by the senses.
4. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment.
5. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception.
6. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason.
7. Opprest nature sleeps;
8. This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses . Shak .
9. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning.
10. He raves; his words are loose
11. As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense . Dryden .
12. Opinion; notion; judgement.
13. I speak my private but impartial sense
14. With freedom. Roscommon .
15. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness.
16. Moral perception.
17. Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
18. L'Estrange .
19. Meaning; important; signification; as the true sense of words or phrases. In interpretation, we are to examine whether words are to be understood in a literal or figurative sense . So we speak of a legal sense , a grammatical sense , an historical sense , etc.
20. Common sense , that power of the mind which, by a kind of instinct, or a short process of reasoning, perceives truth, the relation of things, cause and effect, etc. and hence enables the possessor to discern what is right, useful, expedient, or proper, and adopt the best meams to accomplish his purpose. This power seems to be the gift of nature, improved by experience and observation.
21. Moral sense , a determination of the mind to be pleased with the contemplation of those effections, actions or characters of rational agents, which are called good or virtuous.
1. A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
7. Moral perception or appreciation.
8. One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
9. To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Perceived by the senses. [ Not in use .]
Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.
1. sens'less .
2. Wanting the faculty of perception. The body when dead is senseless ; but a limb or other part of the body may be senseless , when the rest of the boky enjoys its usual sensibility.
3. Unfelling; wanting sympathy.
4. The senseless feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe .
6. They would repent this their senseless perverseness, when it would be to late.
7. Clarendon .
8. Unreasonable; stupid; acting without sense or judgement.
9. Ther were a senseless stupid race. Swift .
10. Contrary to reason or sound judgement; as, to destroy by a senseless fondness the happiness of children.
11. Wanting knowledge; unconscious; with of ; as libertiness, senseless of any charm in love.
12. Wanting sensibility or quick perception.
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
of Sensibility
1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies ; as when we say, a frozen limb has lost its sensibility .
2. Acuteness of sensation; applied to the body .
3. Capacity of acuteness of perception; that quality of the soul which renders it susceptible of impressions; delicacy of feeling; as sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility .
4. Actual feeling.
5. This adds to my great sensibility . Burke .
6. [This word is often used in this manner for sensation .]
7. It is sometimes used in the plural.
8. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism, than of wounded pride.
9. Marshall .
10. Sensibilities unfriendly to happiness, may be acquired. Encyc .
11. Nice perception, so to speak, of a balance; that quality of a balance which renders it movable with the smallest weight, or the quality or state of any insrument that renders it easily affected; as the sensibility of a balance or of a thermometer.
1. The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.
3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
1. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs. We say the body or the flesh is sensible , when it feels the impulse of an external body. It may be more or less sensible .
2. Perceptible by the senses. The light of the moon furnishes no sensible heat.
3. Air is sensible to the touch by its motion. Arbuthnot .
4. Perceptible or perceived by the mind.
5. The disgrace was more sensible then the pain. Temple .
6. Perceiving or having perception, either by the mind or the senses.
7. A man cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
8. Locke .
9. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
11. I should not make so great a show of zeal. Shak .
12. Having acute intellectual feeling; being easily or strongly affected; as, to be sensible of wrong.
13. Perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
15. Intelligent; descerning; as a sensible man.
16. Moved by a very small weight or impulse; as, a sensible balance is necessary to ascertain exact weight.
17. Affected by a slight degree of heat or cold; as a sensible thermometer.
18. Containing good sense or sound reason.
19. He addressed Claudius in the following sensible and noble speech. Henry .
Sensation; also, whatever may be perceived.
1. Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
2. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
3. Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
6. Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
1. Sensation; sensibility.
2. That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
3. That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
1. Possibility of being perceived by the senses; as the sensibleness of odor or sound.
2. Actual perception by the mind or body; as the sensibleness of an impression on the organs. [But qu.]
3. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception; as the sensibleness of the eye.
4. Susceptibility; capacity of being strongly affected, or actual feeling; consciousness; as the sensibleness of the soul and sorrow for sin.
5. Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
6. Susceptibility of slight impressions. [See Sensible , No. 9, 10.]
1. The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.
2. Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
1. In a manner to be perceived by the senses; perceptibly to the senses; as pain sensibly increased; motion sensibly accelerated.
2. With perception, either of mind or body. He feels his loss very sensibly .
3. Externally; by affecting the senses.
4. With quick intellectual perception.
5. With intelligence or good sense; judiciously. The man converses very sensibly on all common topics.
1. In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.
2. With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.
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Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
So they read from the Book of the Law of God, explaining it and giving insight, so that the people could understand what was being read.
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.