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In a sensual manner.

Sensuality; fleshliness.

Sensualism.

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense. To this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. Milton.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

See Common sense, under Sense.

Agreement; accord. Bentley.

Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions. Consensual contract (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.

Agreement; accord; consent. That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor.

Insanity; folly. [Obs.] What tediosity and disensanity Is here among! Beau. & Fl.

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

each of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] Ascham. -- Dis*sen"sious*ly, adv. Chapman.

See Hyperæsthesia.

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton.