Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. --Bacon.
Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of
sensual, mental powers ascends. --Pope.
2. Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly;
pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the
senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual,
having not the Spirit. --Jude 19.
The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . .
that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most
divine. --Hooker.
3. Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious;
voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from
that wherein sensual men place their felicity.
--Atterbury.
4. Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of
sensualism.