inteneration 
inteneration (in-ton-e-ra'shgn), n. [< in/- /- 
rate + -ion.] The act of intenerating or mak- 
ing soft or tender. [Rare.] 
Restauration of some degree of youth, and intenerativn 
of tin- parts. Kacon, Nat Hist., 65. 
inteniblet (iii-ten'i-bl), a. [< i- 3 + "ti-iiilil,- 
for tenable: see tenable.] Same as intenable, 2. 
intensate (in-ten'sat), t>. t.; pret. and pp. ////< - 
anted, ppr. intciinatinij. [<^ intense + -ate' 2 .] 
To make intense or more intense; intensify. 
[Kare.] 
Poor Jean Jacques ! . . . with all misformations of Na- 
ture intfnsated to the verge of madness by unfavourable 
fortune. Carlyle, Diderot. 
intensation (in-ten-sa'shon), . [< intense + 
Often.] The act of intensating; elevation to 
a higher degree of intensity. [Bare.] 
There are cooks too, we know, who boast of their diabolic 
ability to cause the patient, by successive intengations of 
their ;u t, to eat with uew and ever new appetite, till he ex- 
plode on the spot. Carlyle, Diderot. 
intensative (in-ten'sa-tiv), a. [< intensate + 
-n-'.\ Making intense or more intense ; adding 
intensity; intensifying. [Rare.] 
intense (in-twu')i [< *". intense = 8p. Pg. 
It. inteHso, < L. intensus, stretched tight, pp. of 
intt'iidere, stretch out: see intend.'} 1. Exist- 
ing in or having a high degree ; strong: pow- 
erful: as, intense pain; intense activity; hence, 
extreme or absolute of its kind: having its 
characteristic qualities in a high degree. 
I fear that your Love to me doth not continue In so con- 
stant and interue a Degree. Howell, Letters, I. v. 1. 
The national and religious prejudices with which the 
English were regarded throughout India were peculiarly 
iiitnisr In the metropolis of the Brahminical superstition. 
Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
From the intense, clear, star-sown vault of heaven, 
O'er the lit tea's unquiet way. 
M. Arnold, Self-dependence. 
A passion so intense 
One would think that it well 
Might drown all life In the eye. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxiv. 8. 
I prefer a winter walk that takes In the nightfall and 
the intense silence that ere long follows Ik 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 51. 
2. Exhibiting a high degree of some quality or 
action. 
I Hi- was| studiously intense In acquiring more know- 
ledge. K. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 341. 
3. Susceptible to strong emotion; emotional. 
[Recent cant.] 
Scene, a drawing-room In Passionate Brompton. 
Fair Esthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to .Smith, 
who has just been Introduced t<> take her In to dinner). 
Are you Intense / 
/'. Mii/iri- ,; English Society at Home, pi. 49. 
4. In iiliiiini/.. same as dense, 3. 
intensely (in -tens Mi), adv. 1. In an intense 
degree; with intensity; extremely; very: as, 
weather intensely cold. 2f. Attentively; ear- 
nestly; intently. 
To persons young, and that look intensely It it be dark, 
there appear many strange images moving to and fro. 
J. Spencer, Vanity of Vulgar Prophecies, p. 108. 
8. With intense feeling or emotion. 
He lived intensely in his own imaginings, wise or idle, 
beautiful or feebly extravagant. S. Dowden, Shelley, 1. 41. 
intenseneS8 (in-tens'nes), n. The state or 
character of being intense, in any sense of that 
word; intensity. 
He was in agony, and prayed with the utmost ardency 
and intensenest. Jer. Taylor. 
intensification (in-ten'si-fi-ka'shon), . [As 
intensify + -ation.] 1. The act of intensifying 
or of making intense. 
The result of training for prize fights and races is more 
shown in the prolongation of energy than in the inttn*i- 
fication of energy. B. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., S 80S. 
Specifically 2. In photog., the process of 
thickening or rendering more opaque the chem- 
ical deposits in the film of a picture. Intensifica- 
tion is required to improve the printing quality of a neg- 
ative, when the exposure has been ill-timed or the sub- 
ject badly lighted. It Is sometimes effected, in the case 
of too short exposure, by carrying the development to an 
extreme, but more commonly the negative is intensified 
by a new chemical process after development. 
intensifier (in-ten'si-fi-er), n. One who or 
that which intensifies. Specifically (a) In pAo- 
toff., one of the substances which, when applied to a neg- 
ative, increase thu opacity of the deposit already formed. 
(6) In physical and mechanical appliances, an appara- 
tus for intensifying or increasing the pressure upon a 
mass of confined air or other fluid. Two directly con- 
nected pistons of different areas, working in separate cyl- 
inders supplied with proper valves, constitute the main 
features of the apparatus. The smaller cylinder receiving 
the fluid at a given pressure on one side of its piston, tli, 
latter is thereby moved to the end of its stroke, and its 
valve Is closed to prevent escape of the- fluid. N'ext the 
fluid Is, at the same pressure, admitted Into the larger 
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cylinder, on the opposite side of 1U piston to that upon 
which the admission was effected in the smaller cylinder. 
Thw fluid In the smaller cylinder is thus compressed, and 
its pressure upon each unit nf interior surface of the cyl- 
inder Is intensified In the exact ratio of the areas of the 
pistons. By a series of these Intensiflers, or by properly 
proportioning the cylinders and pistons, pressure Is thus 
increased without limit, except such an u introduced by 
the limits of strength In materials. 
intensify (in-ten'si-fi), .; pret. and pp. inten- 
sified, ppr. intensifying. [= F. intensifier; < L. 
intensus, intense, 4- -ficarc, <facere, make.] I. 
trans. 1. To render intense or more intense; 
heighten the action or some quality of. 
We have seen the influence of universal empire expand 
Ing, and the influence of Ureek civilisation intensifying, 
the sympathies of Europe. Lrcky, Europ. Morals, II. 290. 
2. Specifically, in photog., to render more 
opaque, as the chemically affected parts of a 
negative. See intensification, 2. 
II. intrans. To become intense or more in- 
tense ; act with greater effort or energy, 
intension (in-ten shon), n. [= Sp. intension = 
Pg. intensao = It. intensione, < L. intcnsio(n-), a 
stretching out, < intendere, pp. intt H.IH.I, stretch 
out: see intend, intense.] 1. Intensity, quan- 
tity, or degree of a quality, action, or effect. 
The greatness of the glory eternal consists not only In 
the eternity of Its duration, but In its intension also, as 
being supreme. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 370. 
Art demands, In addition to the dimension of extension, 
a dimension of intension or degree. 
./. Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 348. 
2. The act of making intense ; intensification. 
[Rare.] 
It Is by alternate intension and remission of effort that 
rhythm Is made obvious to our senses. 
J. Hadley, Essays, p. 95. 
3. In logic, a term used by Sir William Hamil- 
ton for the sum of the characters given in the 
definition of a term: intended to replace the 
term comprehension intension and remission of 
format. In metaph., higher and lower degrees of substan- 
tial forms as they exist in the Individuals : for instance, 
one thing may be supposed to possess the elemental form 
of fire in a more Intense state than another thing. This 
doctrine was held by Duns Scotus and his followers, but 
was denied by the rest of the scholastic doctors. 
intensity ( in-ten 'si-ti), t. [= F. intensite = 
Sp. intensidail = Pg. intensidade = It. intensita, 
< L. as if *intensitti(t-)s, < intensus, tight: see 
intense."] 1. The character or state of being 
intense; the quantity or degree of a quality, 
action, or effect; degree; specifically, a high 
degree. Intensity (as opposed to extension) Is a quan- 
tity which Is not apprehended by a successive synthesis, 
but all at once; a quantity the parts of which are not 
separately identifiable, and which has an absolute mini- 
mum. 
The intensity of the heat was tremendous : the tar melt- 
ed in the seams of the deck ; we could scarcely bear it even 
when we were under the awning. 
JR. Curzon, Monast. in the Levant, p. 2. 
It Is no doubt also true that intensity of antecedent de- 
sire intensifies the pleasure of fruition when that comes 
the pleasure not only appears, as Plato thought, bat ac- 
tually is greater. //. Sidgicick, Methods of Ethics, p. 124. 
The intentitt/ and persistence of grief at the loss of a 
friend measures the depth of the affection. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psycho!., p. 491. 
Wealth of expanded and convoluted cerebral hemi- 
spheres is, in some general way, a measure of the rich- 
ness and intensity of mental life. 
Q. T. Ladd, 1'hysiol. Psychology, p. 246. 
2. In physics and mech., the amount or degree 
of energy with which a force operates or a cause 
acts ; effectiveness, as estimated by the result ; 
the magnitude of a force, measured in appro- 
priate units : as, the intensity of gravitation, in 
electricity, the intensity qfa current is properly its strength 
(expressed In amperes) ; In popular language, however, it 
is often used of the electromotive force or potential dif- 
ference of the current, as when a voltaic battery, coupled 
in series, is said to be arranged for intensity. 
The intensity of light depends upon the extent of the 
vibrations of the height of the waves. 
Spottismode, Polarization, p. Si. 
The inteiim'tti of magnetization of a uniformly magnet- 
lied body is defined as the quotient of Us moment by its 
volume. J. D. Everett, Units and Phys. Constanta, p. 121. 
3. Used absolutely: Intense feeling or emo- 
tion ; also, the exhibition or embodiment of in- 
tense feeling or emotion. 
But this led him to search the Bible and dwell upon It 
with an earnestness and mten*t/.v which no determination 
of a calmer mind could have commanded. 
Southey, Bnnyan, p. S2. 
In proportion to the intensity needful to make his 
(Wordsworth's] nature thoroughly aglow Is the very high 
quality of his best verses. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 243. 
4. In photog., opacity or density, as of a nega- 
tive. Sec iiiteiiyiticatii>n.'2.. Chromatic, colorific, 
magnetic, etc., intensity, see the adjectives. - inten- 
sity of a pressure or other stress, the total force divided 
by the area over which It is distributed. 
intent 
intensive (in-ten'siv), a. and n. [= F. iuten- 
M/ = Sp. 1\'. It. iiiti-nsivo, < NL. intensivus, < L. 
intensus, intense: see intense.] I. a. 1. Per- 
taining or referable to intensity or degree ; in- 
creasing in intensity or degree ; making or be- 
coming intense ; intensifying. 
The pressure [of population], from being simply exten- 
sive, has also become intensive. 
Amer. Anthropologist, I. 17. 
Those persons requiring the intensive treatment [in vac- 
cination] have to come again in the afternoon. 
Xintteenth Century, XXIV. 868. 
2. Intense. 
A very intensive pleasure follows the passion or dlsplea- 
sore. llurton, Anat, of Mel. , p. 266. 
The elevating force Is more intensive In the Chilian An- 
des than In the neighboring countries. 
Pop. 3d. Mo., XXVL 80. 
3f. Intent; unremitted ; assiduous. 
Hereupon Salomon said, klsse me with the kisse of thy 
mouth, to note the intetitive desire of the soule. 
Benvenuto, Passengers' Dialogues (1812). 
4. In gram., expressing intensity or a high de- 
gree of action or quality ; serving to give force 
or emphasis: as, an intensity particle or prefix. 
Many particles and prefixes, as well as verbs, are called 
intensive, especially In Latin and Ureek grammar, even 
when their force is not expressible by paraphrase or trans- 
lation. Prefixes originally intensive often become neu- 
tral. Intensive distance, difference in the degree of 
some quality. 
The intensive distance between the perfection of an an- 
gel and of a man is but finite. Sir Jf. //./(-. 
Intensive distinctness, distinctness and completeness 
in logical depth. Intensive gas-burner. See gas burn- 
er. Intensive proposition, a proposition In which the 
subject is viewed as the containing whole. Intensive 
quantity, (a) A continuous quantity the parts of which 
cannot be separately identified, and which has an absolute 
minimum ; degree ; intensity. 
That quantity which can be apprehended as unity only, 
and In which plurality can be represented by approxima- 
tion only to negation 0, I call intensive quantity. Ev- 
ery reality therefore in a phenomenon has intensive quan- 
tity t,b*t Is, a degree. 
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Max Muller. 
(ft) Logical comprehension or depth ; the sum of the char- 
acters predicable of a term ; the sum of consequences from 
a given fact Intensive sublimity, sublimity due to the 
high degree of some quality. 
II. n. Something serving to express_ inten- 
sity, or to give force or emphasis; specifically, 
in gram., an intensive particle, word, or phrase, 
intensively (in-ten'siv-li), adv. In an inten- 
sive manner; by increase of degree; as regards 
intensity or degree. 
An object is intensively sublime when It Involves neb 
a degree of force or power that the Imagination cannot at 
once represent; and the Understanding cannot bring under 
measure, the quantum of this force ; and when, from the 
nature of the object, the Inability of the mind is made at 
once apparent, so that it does not proceed in the ineffec- 
tual effort, but at once calls back its energies from the at- 
tempt. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xlvl. 
Frequently the linguistic material available is of a pre- 
carious quality, intensively and extensively. 
Trans. Amer. Philoi. Ass., XVt, App., p. xU. 
intensiveness (in-ten'siv-nes) ; n. The charac- 
ter or quality of being intensive; intensity. 
He chose a solitary retired garden, where nothing might 
or could interrupt or divert the intenxiwnex* of his sorrow 
and fear. Sir JM. Bale, Christ Crucified. 
intent (in-tenf), a. [= OF. intent = Sp. Pg. 
It. intento, < L. intentus, stretched, strained, 
eager, intent, pp. of intendere, stretch, intend, 
attend: see intend. Cf. intent, .] 1. Firmly 
or steadfastly fixed or directed (upon some- 
thing); fixed with strained or earnest atten- 
tion: as, an intent look or gaze; his thoughts 
are intent upon his duty. 
People whose hearts are wholly bent toward* pleasure, 
or intent upon gain, never hear of the noble occurrences 
among men of Industry and humanity. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 348. 
But this whole hour your eyes have been intent 
On that veiled picture. 
Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 
2. Having the mind bent or earnestly fixed 
upon something; sedulously engaged or set- 
tled: usually with on or upon: as, a person in- 
tent tti><i business or pleasure. 
The patient fisher takes his silent stand, 
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, L 138. 
Her head erect, her face turned full to me, 
Her soul intent on mine through two wide eyes. 
Browning, King and Book, I. 902. 
3t. Earnestly attentive; strongly devoted: 
with to. 
Distractions in England made most men intent to their 
own safety. Eiton Basilite. 
intent (in-tent'), n. [Early mod. E. also entent; 
< ME. intent, usually entent, entente, < OF. en- 
tail, m., entente, F. entente, t., = Pr. en ten, m., 
entente, f., = Sp. Pg. It. intento, m., intent, < L. 
