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Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction. A tensive pain from distension of the parts. Floyer.

Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.

Distending, or capable of being distended.

extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.

The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.

Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.

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

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

Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration (Math.), a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.

In an ostensive manner.

Drawn out; extended. [R.] Time is a protensive quantity. Sir W. Hamilton.

. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no esse…

Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. [Obs.]

Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the…

Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to…

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

ing (or majesty), a title granted by the pope to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of Austria in right of the throne of Hungary. -- Apostolic see, a see founded and governed by an apostle; specifi…

Augmentative; intensive. Ellicott.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]