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To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.

In a sentimental manner.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. [Obs.] Latimer.

r other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay.

Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection. B. G. Wilder.

A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak.

Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

One who absents one's self.

In an absent or abstracted manner.

The state of being absent; withdrawal. [R.] Barrow.

The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.

Good against dysentery. -- n.

iescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. Macaulay.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

An obsequious; a flatterer. [R.]