a. [SUB- 1 a.] Below or deeper than the range of the senses.
1863. Tyndall, Heat, ii. 33. We can only reach the roots of natural phenomena by laying down, intellectually, a subsensible soil out of which such phenomena spring. Ibid. (1871), Fragm. Sci. (1879), II. xv. 387. That subsensible world into which all natural phenomena strike their roots.
So Subsensual, -sensuous adjs.
1886. Homilet. Rev., July, 73. The dark, *subsensual flow of a soul abandoned to vice.
1892. Agnes M. Clerke, Fam. Stud. Homer, viii. 212. In some unexplained subsensual way.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Notes & Lect. (1849), I. 164. Nationality in each individual, quoad his country, is equal to the sense of individuality quoad himself; but himself as subsensuous, and central.
1898. Horton, Commandm. Jesus, xvi. 290. In that subsensuous contact of spirit with spirit.
