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)

  1. (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.

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