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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 4 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• sensitive:
    1. I. Capable of sensation: sensĭlis: v. sensible (II.).
    2. II. Possessing acute sensibility:
      1. 1. perh. mollis (an epith. usu. implying a want of sufficient firmness and manliness): cf. Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1, quam mollis animus et ad accipiendam et ad deponendam offensionem (how extremely s.; ready both to take offence and to forgive): so, molle os, denotes a countenance easily blushing: Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 70. So, agilitas mollitiesque naturae, Cic. l. c., denotes a sensitive disposition.
      2. 2. simly., tĕner: cf. Cic. Fin. 5, 21, fin., teneriore animo mihi videbare (sensitive to weakness).
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• SENSITIVE
  • Quick of sensation, *facile sentiens (☞ not sensibilis in this sense). The eye is a very sensitive organ, oculi facile laeduntur.
  • Alive to emotion, mollis; qui or cujus animus facile movetur. The sensitive plant, *mimosa sensitiva (Linn.).
  • Irritable, mollis ad accipiendam otfensionem (e.g., animus, Cic. Att., 1, 17, 2): irritabilis (excitable): iracundus: facile excandescens: iram in promtu gerens (irritable; the latter, Plaut., Pseud., 1, 5, 33). To be (over) sensitive, animo esse molliore; in aliquo est animus mollis