sensate /ˈsɛn.seɪt/adjective 3verb 1forms 5 adjective3 •Having the ability to sense things physically.Mendicant was able to postpone its inevitable annihilation for [106:S] with its attempt to flee. But the last of its core vessels hangs before me now; crippled and defeated but still sensate. — 2007 •Perceived by one or more of the senses. •Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do — 1689 verb1 •To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.As those of the one are enated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye. — 1673 formssensated · sensating · sensates · more sensate · most sensate