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an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

eflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.

to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper. An ardent and impetuous race. Macaulay.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. [Obs.] When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson.…

To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invectiv…

lot; to apportion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

ity of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

re in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life,…

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. Without bothering about it. H. James.