Lewis Short
per-sentisco, ĕre
* V. intens. a.
* To perceive clearly, to detect (ante-class.): nunc ne legio persentiscat, clam illuc redeundum'st mihi,Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 28; id. Aul. 1, 1, 24: ubi possem persentiscere, Ni essem lapis,Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 43.
* To feel deeply: viscera persentiscunt,Lucr. 3 (249).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary