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To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.

A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.

Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence. H. Sweet.

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc. If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.…

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. Sir M. Hale.

In an intensive manner; by increase of degree. Abp. Bramhall.

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity. Sir M. Hale.

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

Intention. [Obs.]

of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. Locke.

Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.

The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.

In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose.

Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well- intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.

Attentive; intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Attentively; closely. [Obs.] "Intentively to observe." Holland.

Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed.

The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. South.

Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.