sensuously, adv.
(ˈsɛnʃuːəslɪ, -sjuː-)
[f. sensuous a. + -ly2.]
In a sensuous manner.
| 1825 Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 326 To bring together every one of the sensible and ponderable stuffs or elements, that are sensuously perceived in the eye itself, or in the flesh itself. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. I. 127 So warm and rich it is, so sensuously beautiful. 1877 E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. viii. 357 The categories would have no use except in relation to a sensuously given manifold. 1886 Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. xi. 180 Venus..takes that sensuously dreamy..journey across the blue Mediterranean. |