immensive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French immensif, from immense + -if.[1] By surface analysis, immense + -ive.
Adjective
[edit]immensive (comparative more immensive, superlative most immensive)
- (obsolete) Huge.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the King”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 278:
- Give vvay, give vvay, novv, novv my Charles ſhines here, / A Publike Light (in this immenſive Sphere.)
References
[edit]- ^ “immensive, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
[edit]- “immensive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.