ppl. a. (UN-1 7 and 5 b.)

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 315. We may admit a sentient composed of unsentient parts. Ibid., 583. An eternal First Cause, whether intelligent or unsentient.

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1835.  J. Young, Lect. Intell. Philos., xlviii. 485. There could be no sensation in an unsentient being.

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1864.  Bowen, Logic, xiii. 422. Only in the sentient mind, and not in the unsentient matter of the body.

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