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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Internal \In*tern"al\, a. [L. internus; akin to interior. See {Interior}.] 1. Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to {external}; as the internal parts of a body, or of the earth. 2. Derived from or dependent on the thing itself inherent; as the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures. 3. Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to {foreign}; as internal trade internal troubles or war. 4. Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. With our Savior, internal purity is everything. --Paley. 5. Intrinsic; inherent; real. [R.] The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight of God. --Rogers. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum to perceive, to feel from the same root as E. send cf OHG. sin sense mind, sinnan to go to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf F. sens. For the change of meaning cf {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. ``He speaks sense.'' --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: a ``The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.'' b ``The faculty of first principles.'' These two are the philosophical significations. c ``Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.'' d When the substantive is emphasized: ``Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.'' {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, a . {The inner}, or {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. ``This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it and might properly enough be called internal sense.'' --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: internal adj 1: happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant: {external}] 2: occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation" [syn: {intragroup}] 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: {home(a)}, {interior(a)}, {national}] 4: located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: {inner}, {interior}] 5: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: {inner}, {intimate}]
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