Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perceptive.
- Full of sense; hence, reasonable; judicious; sensible; appropriate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.
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- adjective Full of
sense ;meaningful ; withreason ;reasonable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It means, simply, that we can frame senseful propositions.
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism Proops, Ian 2007
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As Wittgenstein was later to realize, the case of intuitively senseful, yet vague sentences plausibly constitutes a counterexample (cf. PI Section 99).
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism Proops, Ian 2007
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"In the following pages," he begins, "I shall prove that there exists a psychological technique by which dreams may be interpreted and that upon the application of this method every dream will show itself to be a senseful psychological structure which may be introduced into an assignable place in the psychic activities of the waking state."
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From the gleam of light falling into his eyes while asleep the father draws the solicitous conclusion that a candle has been upset and may have set fire to the corpse; he transforms this conclusion into a dream by investing it with a senseful situation enacted in the present tense.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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The loose associative connection in the dream we have not only recognized, but we have placed under its control a far greater territory than could have been supposed; we have, however, found it merely the feigned substitute for another correct and senseful one.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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Compare this sixth section with the manful, senseful, irrebuttable fourth section -- a folio volume in a single paragraph!
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Finally, a senseful Republican that shows her support for our president, and doesn't bash social issues that should have no place in politics.
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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I think I'm bent on getting at least 300 quests done before the final thing, if there ever will be a senseful end to that tiring and honestly boring game.
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But there’s the opposite, what I will unjudiciously call senseful violence.
Senseful Violence 2009
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In which case we would be unable to frame senseful propositions (i.e., to
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism Proops, Ian 2007
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