Senseless, 1) having no organ of perception: “that you in all obey her, save when command to your dismission tends, and therein you are s.” Cymb. II, 3, 58 (== have no ear).
2) not feeling, insensible: “cold and s. stone,” Ven. 211. “she tears the s. Sinon with her nails,” Lucr. 1564. “s. trees they cannot hear thee,” Pilgr. 393. Gent. III, 1, 143. IV, 4, 203. Err. IV, 4, 25. Mids. III, 2, 28. Wint. IV, 4, 622. R2 V, 1, 46. H6B IV, 1, 77. Cor. I, 4, 53. Rom. I, 4, 36. Caes. I, 1, 40. Hml. II, 2, 496. V, 2, 380. Cymb. I, 3, 7. III, 2, 20. With of: “to seem s. of the bob,” As II, 7, 55. “I am s. of your wrath,” Cymb. I, 1, 135.
3) unfelt: “let my good name, that s. reputation, for Collatine's dear love be kept unspotted,” Lucr. 820; cf. Lucr. 820 “mock not my s. conjuration,” R2 III, 2, 23 (perhaps == conjuration of insensible things).
4) unreasonable: “s. villain,” Err. IV, 4, 24. Shr. I, 2, 36. “to esteem a s. help when help past sense we deem,” All's II, 1, 127. Tw. III, 4, 174. “so s. of expense,” Tim. II, 2, 1 (== so unreasonably expensive; cf. Of). Misapplied by Dogberry in Ado III, 3, 23 (for sensible).
5) void of sense, unmeaning: “or s. speaking or a speaking such as sense cannot untie,” Cymb. V, 4, 148.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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