A WORD A DAY.
SENSE. This word in its ordinary usage indicates a faculty by which objects are perceived, and is commonly employed to designate one of the “five senses,” touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Notwithstanding the many tests which have proved these senses unreliable —two parallel lines appearing to converge, confusion as to location of sound due to echo, etd.—confidence has been placed in this testimony to such an extent that our word in one use has come to express rationality and sound judgment, as “He talks sense.” Then, of course, there is the meaning or “purpose,” as, “What is the sense of this meeting?” “Sense” is derived from the Latin sentire, “to perceiye, to feel”; the Indogermanic base was sent,. “to direct oneself toward,” printing the necessity of taking some action within oneself in order to see what one sets out to see.. Sense is one syllable, the e sounding as in end. . “Good, sense, which only is the gift of Jxe&Vjsa.” ’(Pope.),
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Southland Times, Issue 21087, 20 May 1930, Page 8
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166A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21087, 20 May 1930, Page 8
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