intensative, a. and n. rare.
(ɪnˈtɛnsətɪv)
[f. L. *intensāt-, ppl. stem of *intensāre + -ive: see intensate, and cf. -ative.]
A. adj. = intensive a. 4.
| 1870 Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxv. 13 The intensative particle..aph..yea. 1880 B. Nicholson in Athenæum 18 Dec. 815/1 [In Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 59] ‘wondrous’ is not an attributive of ‘snow’, but an intensative attributive of ‘strange’. |
B. n. = intensive B.
| 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas xvii. II. 79, I also took occasion to use ‘plus bêtes que des philosophes’ as an intensative of common folly. 1880 N. & Q. 6th Ser. II. 324 ‘Infernal’ used as an Intensative. |