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intensively, adv.|ɪnˈtɛnsɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an intensive manner.
1. In a high degree, intensely. Now rare.
1604T. Wright Passions ii. i. 51 It sheweth them very intensively. a1643J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 167 Thou didst more intensively hate them, and multiply their sorrowes. 1706Phillips, Intensively, extremely, excessively, in the highest degree. 1882Nature 23 Mar. 481/2 The covered flowers being less intensively coloured than the others.
†2. With strained effort; earnestly, assiduously, intently. Obs.
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. xi, Let us wait reverently, and intensively upon this Bethesda of God, that when the Angell shall descend and move the water, our soules may be cured. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. ii. vii. 28 Against them they contend more remissely, against us more intensively. c1655Alg. Sidney in 19th Cent. (1884) Jan. 61 Theire desires are most intensively placed upon one object.
3. In relation to intensity or degree of intrinsic force: opp. to extensively 2.
1642tr. Ames' Marrow Div. 200 This administration differs from the former, both intensively and extensively. 1652French Yorksh. Spa ii. 28 The fire is not great extensively, but intensively, because it is kept within a narrow compass. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Diat. vi. 308 To enlarge an impost and burden extensively, to lessen the sense thereof intensively. 1877in Dawson Orig. World xv. 339 The same power..has continued to operate in intensively as well as extensively increasing activity.
4. In regard to logical intension.
1674Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 144 Intensively or Subjectively. 1864Bowen Logic viii. 234 Interpreted Intensively, this Judgment [Man is an animal] signifies that all the attributes of animal are contained in or among—form a part of—the attributes of man. |