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In a sentient or perceptive way.

respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression. The word sentiment, agreeably to the use made of it by our best English writers, expresses, in my own opinion very happily, those complex determinations of the mind which result from the coöperation of our rational powers and of our moral…

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Wh…

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

The quality or state of being sentimental.

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.

Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.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.