intensate
English
Etymology
intense + -ate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/
Verb
intensate (third-person singular simple present intensates, present participle intensating, simple past and past participle intensated)
- (transitive) To intensify.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for intensate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)