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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sentient  \Sen"ti*ent\,  a.  [L.  sentiens,  -entis,  p.  pr  of 
  sentire  to  discern  or  perceive  by  the  senses  See  {Sense}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sentient  \Sen"ti*ent\,  n. 
  One  who  has  the  faculty  of  perception;  a  sentient  being 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sentient 
  adj  1:  endowed  with  feeling  and  unstructured  consciousness;  "the 
  living  knew  themselves  just  sentient  puppets  on  God's 
  stage"-  T.E.Lawrence  [syn:  {animate}]  [ant:  {insentient}] 
  2:  consciously  perceiving;  "sentient  of  the  intolerable  load"; 
  "a  boy  so  sentient  of  his  surroundings"-  W.A.White 




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