Word Meanings - SENSIFACIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Converting into sensation. Huxley.

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• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• SENSATIONALISM
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• SENSATIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• CONVERTER
  A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
• SENSATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;
• CONVERT
  To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
• CONVERTITE
  A convert. Shak.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• PRESENSATION
  Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.
• INCONVERTIBLY
  In an inconvertible manner.
• RECONVERT
  To convert again. Milton.
• INCONVERTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.