intensate, v. rare.
(ɪnˈtɛnseɪt)
[f. L. type *intensāre (f. intens-us intense, or as freq. of intendĕre to stretch) + -ate3 7.]
trans. To make intense; to intensify. Hence inˈtensated ppl. a.
| 1831 Carlyle Misc. Ess., Early Germ. Lit. (1872) III. 202 Like an infinitely intensated organ of Speech. 1837 ― Fr. Rev. III. v. i, In colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 58 To intensate the influences that are not of race. 1870 Whittier in Pickard Life (1894) II. 567 Perhaps a sense of insecurity in their possession..intensates the love I feel for them. |