sentiment (sentiment)

[ She colde was and withouten sentemente, For oght he woot, for breth ne felt he non. Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1177. 2. Higher feeling; emotion. (a) In psychol., an emotional judgment; also, the faculty for a special emotion. I am apt to suspect that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions. Hume , Prin. of Morals, § 1. We speak of sentiments of respect, of esteem, of gratitude; but I never heard the pain of the gout, or any other mere feeling, called a sentiment. Reid, Active Powers, v. 7. The mental or internal feelings - the sentiments - may be divided into contemplative and practical. The former are the concomitants of our cognitive powers, the latter of our powers of conation. Sir W. Hamilton , Metaph., xlv. Sentiment is nothing but thought blended with feeling; thought made affectionate, sympathetic, moral. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 236. But immediately that the proper stimuli bring them into action there will be a certain pleasure from the moral exercise, as there is from the exercise of other functions; and that pleasure is naturally felt as moral sentiment. Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 172. Hume seems to have perceived in belief something more than the mere operation of ideas. He speaks frequently of this phenomenon as a sentiment, and he appears to have regarded it as an ultimate fact, though governed by the conditions of a ociation and habit. J. Sully , Sensation and Intuition, p. 75. (b) Sensibility, or a tendency to make emotional judgments; tender susceptibility. 5497 Inasmuch as religion and law and the whole social order of civilized society, to say nothing of literature and art, are so founded on sentiment that they would all go to pieces without it, it is a word not to be used too lightly in pa ing judgment, as if it were an element to be thrown out or treated with small consideration. O. W. Holmes, Poet at Breakfast-Table. 3. Exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, as in literature, art, or music; a literary or artistic expre ion of a refined or delicate feeling or fancy. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 365. The grace and sentiment of French design [medieval painting) are often exquisite, but are le constant than C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 306. the work of early Italian painters. 4. Thought; opinion; notion; judgment; the decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reflection: as, to expre one's sentiments on a subject. On questions of feeling, taste, observation, or report, we define our sentiments . On questions of science, argument, or metaphysical abstraction, we define our opinions. William Taylor , English Synonyms Discriminated (1850). It has always been a sentiment of mine that to propagate a malicious truth wantonly is more despicable than to falsify from revenge. Sheridan , School for Scandal, ii. 2. 5. The sense, thought, or opinion contained in words, but considered as distinct from them: as, we may like the sentiment when we dislike the language. Hence-6. A thought expre ed in striking words; especially, a sentence expre ive of some particularly important or agreeable thought, or of a wish or desire; in particular, a toast, often couched in proverbial or epigrammatic language. Come, Mr. Premium, I'll give you a sentiment ; here's succe to usury! Sheridan , School for Scandal, iii. 3. This charming sentiment , recommended as much by sense as novelty, gave Catherine a most pleasing remembrance of all the heroines of her acquaintance. Jane Austen , North anger Abbey, xv. 7. pl. In phren ., the second division of the moral or affective faculties of the mind, the first being termed propensities . See phrenology . - 8t. Taste; quality. Other Trees there ben also, that beren Wyn of noble sen Mandeville, Travels, p. 189. tement. Practical sentiments. See practical. =Syn. 2-4. Senti ment, Thought, Feeling. Sentiment has a peculiar place between thought and feeling, in which it also approaches the meaning of principle. It is more than that feeling which is sensation or emotion, by containing more of thought and by being more lofty, while it contains too much feeling to be merely thought, and it has large influence ism; over the sentiment the will: of for honor; example, the the world sentiment is ruled of by patriot senti ment. The thought in a sentiment is often that of duty, and is penetrated and exalted by feeling. sentimental (sen-ti-men'tal), a. [= F. sentimental = Sp. Pg. sentimental = It. sentiment ale = D. sentiment eel = G. Sw. Dan. sentimental; as sentiment + -al.] 1. Swayed, or apt to be swayed, by sentiment; of a tender and susceptible heart; mawkishly tender or susceptible: as, a sentimental person. This quality was highly valued about the third quarter of the eighteenth century, but later was regarded almost with disgust. Hence word at one time bore a favorable, at a later time an unfavorable implication. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderne . Whately. Some of the most sentimental writers, such as Sterne (and Byron), seem to have had their capacities of tenderne excited only by ideal objects, and to have been very hardhearted towards real persons. A. Bain , Emotions and Will, p. 208. 2. Containing or characterized by sentiment; appealing to the feelings rather than to reason: as, a sentimental song; sentimental works. I have something else for you, which I am fabricating at a great rate, and that is my Sentimental Journey, which shall make you cry as much as it has affected me, or I will give up the busine of sentimental writing, and write to the body. Sterne, Letters, cxiii. Perhaps there is no le danger in works called sent i men tal . They attack the heart more succe fully because more cautiously. V. Knox, E ays, No. 171. =Syn. Romantic , Sentimental (see romantic ), hysterical, gushing, etc. (in style). sentimentalise, sentimental i ser. See senti mentalize , sentimentalizer . sentimentalism (sen-ti-men tal-izm), n. [ IMG:content-0620.png:[blocks in formation] tics. For Burke was himself also, in the subtler sense of the word, a sentimentalist - that is, a man who took what would now be called an sæsthetic view of morals and pol i Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 350. sentimentality (sen"ti-men-tal'i-ti), n. [ timental + -ity.] The quality of being sentimental; affectation of fine or tender feeling or exquisite sensibility; sentimentalism. The false pity and sentimentality of many modern ladies. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. 201. They held many aversions, too, in common, and could have the comfort of laughing together over works of false sentimentality and pompous pretension. Charlotte Brontë , Shirley, xii. sentimentalize (sen-ti-men'tal-iz), v.; pret. and pp. sentimentalized, ppr. sentimentalizing. [ And so they reproach and torment themselves, and refine and sentimentalize, till gratitude becomes burdensome, and the very idea of a benefactor odious. Mi Edge worth , Emilie de Coulanges. II. trans. To render sentimental; give a sentimental character to. The adapters... sentimentalize the character of Lydia, and almost humanize the hero. Athenæum, No. 3284, p. 457. Also spelled sentimentalise . sentimentalizer (sen-ti-men'tal-i-zėr), n. One who sentimentalizes. Also spelled sent i men taliser . A preacher-up of Nature, we now and then detect under the surly and stoic garb [of Thoreau] something of the sophist and the sentimentalizer . Lowell, Study Windows, p. 203. sentimentally (sen-ti-men'tal-i), adv. In a sentimental manner; as regards sentiment; toward or in reference to sentiment: as, to be sentimentally inclined; to speak sentimentally. sentinet (sen'tin), n. [OF. sentine, F. sentine = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. sent in a, I can say gro ly the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices, a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs. Latimer , Sermons (Parker Soc.), p. 42. sentinel (sen'ti-nel), n. and a. [Formerly also sent in ell, centinel, centinell , centonell ; = MD. sen tinelle = Sp. centinel a = Pg. sent in ell a = It. sen tinella , a sentinel, sentinelle , F. sentinelle , a sentinel, a watch, a sense transferred from the earlier meaning 'a watching at a particular post,' not given by Cotgrave, but apparent from Kilian's def. (MD. " sentinelle , excubiæ, vigil iæ, primæ excubiæ, excubitor exstans, statio, stat i ones" - - Kilian, Appendix), and from the phrase lever de sentinelle , ntinelle , relieve from sentinel's duty, lit. 'take from his beat,' sentinelle being originally originally, it appears, the pos post itself, a sentinel's beat, the same as sentinelle , a path, a little path, dim., like the equiv equiv. sentelle , a little path, of OF. sente , a path ath (cf. OF. sente path (cf. ret, a little path, dim. of sentier , F. sentier , a path, semitar i us , a path), path), semita , a path, foot-path, by-path, prob. se- , apart, + meare (mi), go: see meatus . This view agrees with a similar explanation of sentry1 , q. v.] I. n. 11. Watch or guard kept by a soldier stationed for the purpose at a particular place. Counsellors are not commonly so united but that one counsellor keepeth sentinel over another. Bacon, Counsel (ed. 1887). Vpon the verge of the Riuer there are fiue houses, wherein liue the honester sort of people, as Farmers in England, and they keepe continuall centinell for the townes securitie. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 12. 2. A soldier stationed as a guard, either to challenge persons drawing near and to allow to pa only those who give a watchword, and, in the absence of this, to resist them and give an alarm, or for display or ceremony only. I was employ'd in pa ing to and fro, About relieving of the sentinels . 3. A sentinel-crab. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 70. II. a. Acting as a sentinel; watching. Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. Campbell , Soldier's Dream. pret. and pp. senti- sentinel (sen'ti-nel), v . t .; neled or sentinelled , ppr. sentineling or sentinel- ling. [ That sentinel just thrones double their guards About your sacred excellence. Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of angels watching round? Milton , P. L., ii. 412. senveyt, senviet, n. See senvy . senvyt, n. [Early mod. E. senvye , senvie; seneve = It. senape , senapa = AS. senep , senap = OFlem. sennep = OHG. senaf, MHG. senef , senf, G. senf = Sw. senap = Dan. senep, sennep, sinapi , also sinape , sinapis = Goth. sinap , σίναπι , also σίνηπι , σίναπυ, σίνηπυ, σίνηπυς, in Attic νᾶπυ , mustard: see sinapis .] Mustard; mustard-seed. Senvey lete so we it no we, and cool sede bot he, And when the list, weel wrought fatte lande thai love. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. . is of a most biting and stinging tast, of a IMG:content-0621.png:[blocks in formation] ing the petaloid sepals s ; b, one of the sepals, on larger scale; c, flower of Cerastium nutans, seen from below: s, one of the sepals; d , calyx of the same, showing the five free sepals. sepal (sep'al or sē'pal), n. [= F. sépale , sepalum , formed (after the analogy of petal , lepal ) separ , separate, different: see sep a- rate. Cf. ML. sepal is , a dubious form, unde- fined, appar. an error for separalis , several: see several. The term was proposed by Necker, and adopted by A. P. de Candolle and all later bot- anists.] In bot . , a calyx-leaf; one of the ind i- vidual leaves or parts that make up the calyx, or outer circle of floral envelops. See calyx , cut in preceding column, and cuts under anti- sepalous and dimerous . The term sepal was devised by Neckar to expre each of the divisions of the calyx. Whewell, Philos. Inductive Sciences, I., p. xciv. sepaled (sep'ald or se'pald), a . [ sepal +-ed2.] In bot . , provided with sepals. sepaline (sep'a-lin), a. [ sepal + -ine1.] In bot ., relating to a sepal or sepals; having the nature of a sepal. sepalody (sep'a-lō-di), n. [ sepal + -ode , a form of -oid , + -y3.] In bot ., metamorphosis or change of petals or other organs into sepals or sepaloid organs. sepaloid (sep'a-loid), a. [ sepal +-oid.] Like a sepal, or distinct part of a calyx. sepalous (sep'a-lus), a. [ sepal + -ous.] Re- lating to or having sepals. separability (sep a-ra-bil'i-ti), n. [L. sep a- rabilis , admitting of separation, sep a rare , separate: see separate .] The property of be- ing separable, or of admitting separation or disunion; divisibility. Glanville . IMG:content-0622.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0623.png:[blocks in formation] separable (sep'a-ra-bl), a . [ separable , F. séparable = Sp. separable = Pg. sep a ravel = It. separabile , sep arab i lis , that can be sep a- rated, sep a rare , separate: see separate .] 1. Capable of being separated, disjoined, or dis- united: as, the separable parts of plants; qua lis epa rate coxe. See coxa , 3. - Separate estate, sep- ties not separable from the substance in which they exist. IMG:content-0624.png:[blocks in formation] In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our lives a separable spite. Shak ., Sonnets, xxxvi. separablene (sep'a-ra-bl-nes), n. The char- acter or property of being separable; separa- bility. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separablene of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle. separably (sep'a-ra-bli), adv . In a separable manner. separata, n . Plural of separatum . separate (sep'a-rāt), v.; pret. and pp. separated , ppr. separating . [ sep a ratus , pp. of sep a- rare (>It. sep a rare = Sp. Pg. separar = Pr. sep a- rar , sebrar = F. séparer and sevrer (> E. sever )), separate (cf. separ , separate, different), se- , apart, + parare , provide, arrange: see seand parel. Cf. sever.] I. trans. 1. To sever the connection or a ociation of; disunite or dis- connect in any way; sever. IMG:content-0625.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0626.png:[blocks in formation] sep a rat i cal (sep-a-rat'i-kal), a. [ separate + -ic- al .] Pertaining to separation in religion; schismatic. [Rare.] Imp . Dict. separating-disk (sep'a-ra-ting-disk), n. dentistry , an emery-wheel used with a dental engine for cutting a space between teeth. separating-funnel (sep'a-ra-ting-fun"el), n. See funnel . separating-sieve (sep'a-rā-ting-siv), n. In gun- powder- manuf ., a compound sieve by which the grains are sorted relatively to size. separating-weir (sep'a-ra-ting-wer), n. A weir which pe permits its the water to flow off in case of flood, but under ordinary circumstances collects it in a channel along the face of the weir. 2. To cleave; open; come apart. - Separating separation (sep-a-ra's hon), n. [OF. separa- tion , separacion , sep a rais on , F. séparation = Pr. sep a ratio = Sp. separacion = Pg. separação The universal tendency to separate thus exhibited [by political parties and religious sects] is simply one of the ways in which a growing a ertion of individuality comes out. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 476. post-office, a post-office where mail is received for dis- tri but i on and despatched to other post-offices. [U. S.] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary separation It. separazione, I remember to have heard.... that a fifteenth part of silver, incorporate with gold, will not be recovered by any water of separation , except you put a greater quantity of silver,.. which. is the last refuge in separations . Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 798. 3. The state of being separate; disunion; disconnection; separate existence. Remove her where you will, I walk along still; For, like the light, we make no separation . Fletcher (and another ), Elder Brother, iii. 5. The soul is much freer in the state of separation ; and if it hath any act of life, it is much more noble and expedite. 5499 separative (sep'a-rā-tiv), a. [=F. séparatif = Pr. separatiu = Sp. Pg. It. separativo, I shall not insist on this experiment, because of that much more full and eminent experiment of the separative virtue of extreme cold that was made against their wills by the forementioned Dutchmen that wintered in Nova Zembla. Boyle , Works, I. 491. The spirit of the synagogue is e entially separative . God's separative judgment-hour. IMG:content-0628.png:[blocks in formation] Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, i. 2. In nat. hist., distinctive; serving for distinction of species or groups: as, separative characters. The Sephardim , or Jews descended from the refugees from Spain after the expulsion in 1492, are generally darker in complexion and have darker hair than other Jews. Jour. of Anthropological Inst ., XIX. 83. IMG:content-0629.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In music: ( a ) A pa ing-note between two tones a third apart. (b) In organ-building, a contrivance introduced into instruments where the great organ keyboard has a pneumatic action, enabling the player to use that keyboard without sounding the pipes belonging to it, even though its stops may be more or le drawn. It is particularly useful where the action of the other keyboards when coupled together is too hard to be convenient. 61. A body of persons separated in fact or doctrine from the rest of the community; a body of separatists or nonconformists; specifically, in the seventeenth century, the Puritans collectively. These chastisements are common to the saints, And such rebukes we of the separation Must bear with willing shoulders. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 1. If ther come over any honest men that are not of ye separation, they will quickly distast them. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 177. Dry separation, the cleaning of coal or concentration of ore by the aid of a strong current or blast of air, or by the so-called "wind method"; concentration without the use of water.-Separation of the roots of an equation. See root1 .