Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to sensation; sensible; sensational.
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Examples
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"It has no effect upon the motor nerves, but is believed to have a visible effect upon the sensatory nerves."
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder
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Beauty by one definition is the sensatory excitement stirred in people by the rhythm of line, the vibration of color, the play of motion and the surprise of idea.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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As a matter of fact I had been listening for perhaps a hundred seconds; listening, not as if with the ears, but with the deeper sensatory nerves.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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The stimulus travels along the sensatory nerve-fibre (S.F.) 3.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Brubakers have seen firsthand how purchasing leather can be a sensatory experience.
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Brubakers have seen firsthand how purchasing leather can be a sensatory experience.
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Brubakers have seen firsthand how purchasing leather can be a sensatory experience.
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Yet much of Chinese medicine was based on the use of herbal medicine and the prevalence of opium in the nineteenth century indicates that chemical intervention in sensatory bodily processes was by no means alien to them.
Gates of Vienna 2008
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