Sensate v. t. (past & past part. sensated; pres. part. sensating) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor. "As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye."
... thing were told that it and it alone had been the age-old, time-immemorial sculptor of the granite rocks; that it and it alone—to paraphrase the words of the scientists—had rolled away the door from the sepulchers of the eternal rocks and turned a planet into a sensate earth pulsing with growth—I suppose if a snow flake were told such heresy, it would die of its ... — The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
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