Come now, be sensible.

Sensible

("sEnsIb(@)l) Also 4–6 sencyble, sensyble, 5 sensibill, -yll, censible, 6 sensybul, sensibil, 6–7 sencible, (sensable, 8 senceible). [a. F. sensible, ad. late L. sensibilis, f. sens- (:—*sentt-), ppl. stem of sentWre to perceive, feel: see -ible. Cf. Sp. sensible, Pg. sensivel, It. sensibile.]

A. adj.

I. That can be felt or perceived.
1. a. Perceptible by the senses. (In Philos., opposed to intelligible 3: in this use now rare.). b. Const. to. c. Specific collocations in scientific use. sensible horizon: see horizon 1. sensible heat (†caloric): used in contradistinction to latent heat: see heat n. 2c. sensible perspiration: sweat as distinguished from the emission of vapour through the pores. †d. Of or pertaining to the senses or sensation. †e. quasi-adv. Perceptibly. Obs.
2. Perceptible by the mind or the inward feelings.
3. Easy to perceive, evident.
4. Large enough to be perceived or to be worth considering; appreciable, considerable. Now only of immaterial things (as quantities, magnitudes, etc.).
†5. Of discourse, etc.: Easily understood; suited to make a strong impression on the mind; striking, effective. Obs.
†6. Such as is acutely felt; markedly painful or pleasurable. Const. to. Obs.

II. Capable of feeling or perceiving.
7. Endowed with the faculty of sensation. †a. Of living beings, their nature or mode of existence. b. of organs, tissues, or parts of the body. †c. sensible virtue, wit, later sensible faculty, capacity: faculty of sensation. Obs.
†8. a. Having (more or less) acute power of sensation; sensitive. Obs. †b. Liable to be quickly or acutely affected by (some object of sensation); sensitive to or of. Obs.
9. Capable of or liable to mental emotion. †a. Having sensibility; capable of delicate or tender feeling. Obs. †b. Sensitive; easily hurt or offended. Obs.
c. Sensitive or readily accessible to some specified emotional influence. Also const. of. Now rare.
10. transf. a. Of material things or substances, esp. of instruments of measurement, as a balance, a thermometer: Readily affected by physical impressions or influences, sensitive. Const. to. Now rare. Also in †sensible plant, weed = sensitive plant, where the adj. has, strictly speaking, sense 8, the movements of the plant having been formerly regarded as evidence of real sensation. †b. Music. sensible note. [tr. F. note sensible.] = leading note (see leading ppl. a.). Cf. sensitive. Obs.

III. Actually perceiving or feeling.
11. a. Cognizant, conscious, aware of something. Often with some tinge of emotional sense: Cognizant of something as a ground for pleasure or regret. Const. of, †to; also with clause. Now somewhat rare. †b. Mindful of a person. Obs.
12. a. Emotionally conscious; having a pleasurable, painful, grateful or resentful sense of something. In later use almost exclusively: Gratefully conscious of (kindness, etc.). Also const. to (? obs.), †for, and with clause. †b. Without const. Obs.
13. Conscious, free from physical insensibility or delirium.

IV. 14. a. Endowed with good sense; intelligent, reasonable, judicious. b. Of action, behaviour, discourse, etc.: Marked by, exhibiting, or proceeding from good sense. c. Of clothing, footwear, etc.: practical rather than attractive or fashionable.

B. absol. and n.
1. That which produces sensation; that which is perceptible; an object of sense, or of any one of the senses. †2. A being that is capable of sensation. Obs. †3. The element (in a spiritual being) that is capable of feeling. Obs. 4. One possessing good sense, a judicious person.
1747 W. Horsley Fool (1748) II. 323 The Sensibles are desired to confine theirs to Masquerades and Playhouses.