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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

sentiens

-entis

, p. pr. of

sentire

to discern or perceive by the senses. See

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.

Specif.

(Physiol.)

especially sensitive;

as, the

sentient

extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues

Noun.

One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Adj.

sen'shent. [L. sentiens, sentio.] That perceives; having the faculty of perception. Man is a sentient being; he possesses a sentient principle.