sensualize
English
Alternative forms
Verb
sensualize (third-person singular simple present sensualizes, present participle sensualizing, simple past and past participle sensualized)
- (transitive) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.
- 1839, Thomas Harvey Skinner, Religion of the Bible: In Select Discourses
- By that one neglect [of prayer], thy thoughts are sensualized.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- Not to suffer oneself to be sensualized by pleasures
- 1993, Scott C. Ratzan, Aids: Effective Health Communication For The 90s:
- normalizing and sensualizing condom use may be of great benefit
- 1839, Thomas Harvey Skinner, Religion of the Bible: In Select Discourses
Derived terms
References
- “sensualize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Portuguese
Verb
sensualize
- inflection of sensualizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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