intensate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]intensate (third-person singular simple present intensates, present participle intensating, simple past and past participle intensated)
- (transitive, archaic) To intensify.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.
- 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits:
- Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
References
[edit]- “intensate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.