v. [UN-2 6 b.] trans. To deprive of sense; esp. to render insensible.
1611. Florio, Disensato, sencelesse, vnsensed, out of reason.
1793. Minstrel, I. 185. I was a little unsensed by my sudden souse into the stream.
a. 1809. T. Paine, Farmer’s Dog, Poems (1834), 163. And get such mischief by the hit As should unsense him of his wit.
1851. Borrow, Lavengro, I. 331. One blow given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.
1895. Educat. Rev., Sept., 158. The mind has been unsensed or dematerialized.
