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intension|ɪnˈtɛnʃən|
[ad. L. intensiōn-em stretching, straining, n. of action from intendĕre to stretch: see intend, intense, and cf. intention, which is etymologically a doublet of this.]
1. The action of stretching, tension; straining. ? Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 395 There be in musicke many divers tunes and different intensions of the voice, which the musicians call harmonies. 1626Bacon Sylva §181 The Industry of the Musitian hath produced two other Meanes of Straining, or Intension of Strings, besides their Winding vp. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 359 From great intension of the voice. 1858Hogg Life Shelley I. 56 His voice..was intolerably shrill, harsh..of the most cruel intension.
2. Strenuous exertion of the mind or will; earnest attention, intentness; resolution, determination.
a1619W. Cowper in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 131 A vehement intension of his spirit. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 456 While with great intension of mind we gaze upon the End. 1822Examiner 251/1 Resolution here means, a bending up, an intension of the spirits. 1860Cornh. Mag. I. 675 Suddenly I found myself springing to my feet, and listening with an agony of intension.
3. Increase of degree or force; augmentation, intensification. (Opp. to remission.) [Cf. Schol.L. intensio et remissio formæ, in Peter of Ailly a 1400, Prantl IV. 105.]
1610Healey Vives' Comm. St. Aug. Citie of God (1620) 420 He directly affirmeth, that essence admitteth neyther intension nor remission, more or less. 1615Crooke Body of Man 574 Parts of the Eares which serue as well for the reception of the sound into them, as also for the intension thereof. 1658W. Sanderson Graphice 48 Brightness is the Intension of Light. 1751Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 174 Some of these quantities and qualities are capable of intension and remission. 1842Manning Serm., Sins of Infirmity (1848) I. 231 The mind cannot without a strain be ever at one pitch..it must have its intervals of intension and remission.
b. In Evolution: see intergeneration. Cf. intensive 7.
4. Degree, esp. notable degree, of some quality, etc.; intensity, depth, strength, force. Often contrasted with extension in sense of width of range.
1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 29 In all the obiects of delight, we may find a certaine intension of goodnes and a certaine extension. 1638F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 326 The pictures..having vehemencie and intension, seeme to be forcibly expressed. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. iv. 48 It may be of universal efficacie, large in the extension of parts, deep in the intension of degrees. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. II. ii. vi. 50 note, Intension being synonymous with intensity. 188819th Cent. May 718 The essence of farming on virgin soils is extension; on old land it is intension. 1898S. J. Andrews Chr. & Antichr. i. 8 The hostile kingdoms should not only increase in extension, but also increase in intension.
5. Logic. The internal quantity or content of a notion or concept, the sum of the attributes contained in it; the number of qualities connoted by a term (= comprehension 4, connotation 2 b; opp. to extension 8 b). Cf. intensive a. 3.
1836–60Sir W. Hamilton Logic viii, The Internal Quantity of a notion,—its Intension or Comprehension, is made up of..the various characters connected by the concept itself into a single whole in thought. 1851Mansel Proleg. Log. vi. (1860) 203 Formal distinctness as regards the intension or comprehension of the concept. 1876Jevons Logic Prim. v. §23. 22 In putting steam before ship we have greatly reduced the extension of the term. But we have increased its intension, because steam-ship means all that ship does, and more, for it means that the ship is moved by steam power. |