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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.

2. (a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physically or mentally; impressible.

3. (a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.

4. (a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

5. (a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

6. (a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; gifted with, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.

7. (n.) Sensation; sensibility.

8. (n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

9. (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

Greek

5429. phronimos -- practically wise, sensible
... practically wise, sensible. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: phronimos
Phonetic Spelling: (fron'-ee-mos) Short Definition: intelligent, prudent ...
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4993. sophroneo -- to be of sound mind, ie to be temperate
... Word Origin from sophron Definition to be of sound mind, ie to be temperate NASB
Word Usage have sound judgment (1), right mind (2), sensible (1), sound ...
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4998. sophron -- of sound mind, self-controlled
... Word Origin from the same as sozo and from phren Definition of sound mind,
self-controlled NASB Word Usage prudent (1), sensible (3). ...
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4995. sophronismos -- self-control
... Cognate: 4995 (a masculine noun derived from 4998 , "truly moderate") -- properly,
safe-minded, issuing in prudent ("sensible") behavior that "fits" a situation ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6175. arum -- crafty, shrewd, sensible
... 6174, 6175. arum. 6176 . crafty, shrewd, sensible. Transliteration: arum
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-room') Short Definition: man. Word ...
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6191. arom -- to be shrewd or crafty
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to be shrewd or crafty NASB Word Usage become
shrewd (1), make shrewd (1), sensible (1), very cunning (1). ...
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7307. ruach -- breath, wind, spirit
... From ruwach; wind; by resemblance breath, ie A sensible (or even violent) exhalation;
figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of ...
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Library

Whether a Sacrament is Always Something Sensible?
... (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether a sacrament is always something sensible? Objection
1: It seems that a sacrament is not always something sensible. ...
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Of Sensible Love
... THE SECOND BOOK CHAPTER XI. OF SENSIBLE LOVE. From inwardness there springs a sensible
love, which fulfills the man's heart and the desirous power of the soul. ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xi of sensible love.htm

Of the Sensible Showing of the Holy Spirit, and of the Coeternity ...
... Book IV. Chapter 21."Of the Sensible Showing of the Holy Spirit, and of the Coeternity
of the Trinity. What Has Been Said, and What Remains to Be Said. ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 21 of the sensible showing.htm

Whether Intellectual Knowledge is Derived from Sensible Things?
... HOW THE SOUL WHILE UNITED TO THE BODY UNDERSTANDS CORPOREAL THINGS BENEATH IT (EIGHT
ARTICLES) Whether intellectual knowledge is derived from sensible things? ...
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Whether Bodily and Sensible Pleasures are Greater than Spiritual ...
... OF DELIGHT CONSIDERED IN ITSELF [*Or, Pleasure] (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether bodily
and sensible pleasures are greater than spiritual and intellectual pleasures? ...
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Whether There was Sensible Pain in Christ?
... OF THE DEFECTS OF SOUL ASSUMED BY CHRIST (TEN ARTICLES) Whether there was
sensible pain in Christ? Objection 1: It would seem that ...
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It Makes Him Sensible of the Reality of Happiness: it Feeds Him ...
... THE SECOND CENTURY 98 It makes him sensible of the reality of Happiness:
it feeds him with contentment. It makes him sensible of ...
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Heavenly Contemplation Assisted by Sensible Objects, and Guarded ...
... CHAPTER XV. HEAVENLY CONTEMPLATION ASSISTED BY SENSIBLE OBJECTS, AND GUARDED
AGAINST A TREACHEROUS HEART. It is difficult to maintain ...
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Abigail's Sensible Advice
... THE OLD TESTAMENT ABIGAIL'S SENSIBLE ADVICE. ... The woman was sensible and beautiful,
but the man was rough and ill-mannered; and he was a Calebite. ...
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Treating of the Same Thing, Declaring How Many Ways of Devotion ...
... V. Treating of the same thing, declaring how many ways of Devotion there are, and
how the sensible Devotion is to be disposed; and that the Soul is not idle ...
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Thesaurus

Sensible (15 Occurrences)
... through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression
upon the sense, reason, or understanding; //// heat; sensible resistance ...
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Dignified (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 3:2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one
wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; (See RSV). ...
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Species (1 Occurrence)
... as species. 2. (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible
percept received by the imagination; an image. 3. (n ...
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Sensibly (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the
mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively. ...
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Horizon (4 Occurrences)
... spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent
to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon ...
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Prudent (40 Occurrences)
... adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct;
practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to ...
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Temperate (6 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 3:2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one
wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; (WEB WEY ASV ...
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Senses (12 Occurrences)

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Logos
... representing reality as the essence which contains within itself potentially the
phenomena, and unfolds into the particular manifestations of the sensible world ...
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Virtue (21 Occurrences)
... of a medicine. 4. (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of
the material or sensible substance. 5. (n.) Specifically ...
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Bible Concordance

Sensible (15 Occurrences)

Matthew 24:45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
(See NAS)

Mark 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and they see the possessed of demons sitting and clothed and sensible, him that had had the legion: and they were afraid.
(DBY)

Luke 8:35 And they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and sensible, at the feet of Jesus. And they were afraid.
(DBY)

Luke 12:42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
(See NAS)

1 Corinthians 10:15 I speak as to men of sense: judge for yourselves of what I say.
(See RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 3:2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
(WEB RSV)

Titus 1:8 but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
(See NAS)

Titus 2:2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
(WEB NAS RSV)

Titus 2:5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
(See NAS RSV)

Titus 2:6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
(See NAS)

Job 18:2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 14:15 The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 14:18 Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 15:5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

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Dignified (4 Occurrences)

Species (1 Occurrence)

Sensibly (2 Occurrences)