intensate

English

Etymology

intense +‎ -ate.

Verb

intensate (third-person singular simple present intensates, present participle intensating, simple past and past participle intensated)

  1. (transitive) To intensify.
    • Thomas Carlyle
      In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ralph Waldo Emerson to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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