intensiveadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈtɛnsɪv/

Etymology: < French intensif, -ive (14–15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) = Italian intensivo , medieval or modern Latin intensīvus , < intens- , participial stem of intendĕre to stretch, strain: see intend n., intense adj. Late Latin had the parallel extensīvus extensive adj.

A. adj.

†1. Of very high degree or force, vehement: = intense adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective]

hardOE

heavyc1000

highOE

highlyOE

stourc1275

largec1330

intensec1400

violent1430

profoundc1450

vehementc1485

intensive1526

advanceda1533

vengeable1532

Herculean1602

well-advanced1602

deep1605

dense1732

abysmal1817

intensitive1835

holy1837

high-level1860

major1942

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. eiiii^v It shalbe to euery christen man or woman more intensyue & feruent, than is the naturall loue.

1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 225 It was strange to see what intensiue loue euery one did beare vs.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. iii. 263 A very intensiue pleasure followes the passion, or displeasure.

1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision viii. 27 Call yonder Planet, Mercury, Whom such intensive Heat Will not Evaporate.

†2. Strenuously directed upon something (quot. 1605); strained, earnest, eager, intent; = intense adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > characterized by attention

studiousa1425

intensive1605

unwanderinga1864

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > carried out or proceeding with vigour

stiffc1250

busyc1275

greatc1275

sternc1275

smart?a1400

stark1489

thronga1525

vigorous1524

stout1582

intensive1605

spiritful?1611

warm1627

intense1645

mettlesome1645

spirited1670

mettled1682

sturdy1697

energetic1700

vivid1702

robustful1800

toughish1840

lively1844

full out1920

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm2 Fascination is the power and act of Imagination, intensiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant.

a1628 J. Preston Mount Ebal (1638) 5 It is nothing else but an intensive bending of the mind unto Christ.

a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 1 Being almost tyred..with that assiduous attendance, and intensive circumspection.

1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 12 Intensive thinking is tedious, and tires.

a. Of, relating, or pertaining to intensity, or degree of intrinsic strength, depth, or fullness, as distinguished from external spatial extent or amount; of or pertaining to logical intension.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adjective]

intensive1604

gradational1842

gradal1872

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree

intensive1604

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [adjective] > relating to logical intension

comprehensive1725

intensive1798

intensional1883

intensionalist1948

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 293 In every obiect of delight there is a certaine intensive goodnes and perfection, and there is an extensive.

1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 61 The intensive infinity of the satisfaction for the sinnes of the world.

1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. i. 3 Concomitants, we may call, that almost illimited power, both Intensive, in sole Ordination; Jurisdiction..As also Extensive, over so vast a Diocesse.

1649 Jeanes Wks. Heaven on Earth in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxlv. 7 There must be an intensive greatness in our praises, in regard of the degree, fervour and heat of them.

1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 169 The part immerged of each Cylinder, bears the same proportion to the whole Cylinder, that the intensive gravity of the Cylinder bears to the intensive gravity of the Fluid.

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 585 Were we endeavouring to characterize this work, in the dialect peculiar to Professor Kant, we should observe, that its intensive, like its extensive, magnitude is small.

1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. iv. 69 The record of an intensive as well as extensive development.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xi. 442–3 In all phenomena the Real has intensive quantity or degree.

b. Having the quality or character of intensity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree > having the quality of intensity

intensive1836

high-level1860

1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vi. 231 Justice is an intensive exercise of holiness.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxiv. 100 Hearing is, however, much less extensive in its sphere of knowledge or perception than sight; but in the same proportion is its capacity of feeling or sensation more intensive.

1899 Q. Rev. Oct. 492 Friends whose reciprocal intensive criticism fanned each other's interest into flame.

4. Having the property of making intense; intensifying; esp. in Grammar, expressing intensity; giving force or emphasis; = intensative adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > intensifying

intensive1608

enhancive1853

ascensive1857

intensative1872

elative1906

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > intensifying > intensified

intensive1608

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 54 Aristophanes deriueth it from Alpha, an intensiue Particle, and Spizo which signifieth to extend.

1751 J. Harris Hermes i. xi. 199 These Comparatives..seem sometimes to part with their relative Nature, and only retain their intensive.

1820 Mair's Lat. Dict. 414 Vē..is sometimes intensive..and sometimes privative.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 448 (note) The τις is intensive.

a. Economics. Applied to methods of cultivation, fishery, etc., which increase the productiveness of a given area: opposed to extensive in which the area of production is extended.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [adjective]

intensive1832

piscicultural1856

cultural1868

fish-cultural1872

maricultural1903

sea-farming1962

1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. x. 324 The removal..of the tithes, gives scope both to a more extensive and a more intensive agriculture.

1865 Times 15 Apr. Ruin stares in the face the occupier whose farm premises are inadequate to the requirements of an ‘intensive cultivation’.

1889 Nature 3 Oct. 558/2 The necessity for increased food productions calls for intensive methods.

1899 19th Cent. No. 264. 300 There is little probability of their escaping from being caught..on account of the intensive fishery.

b. Suffixed to nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘intensively using the thing specified’, as capital-intensive, labour-intensive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree > using (something) intensively

intensive1957

1957 K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism vi. 218 The replacement of labor-intensive irrigation farming by labor-extensive cattle breeding.

1959 Listener 22 Oct. 666/1 We have the highly capital-intensive process of textile manufacture.

1970 Times 2 June (Container Suppl.) p. iii/4 The latest sophisticated container systems add up to a capital-intensive system of some magnitude.

1972 Guardian 29 June 15/5 The developing world..is beginning to see the case for labour-intensive farming.

1973 Nature 6 Apr. 378/2 Economies of scale have been operating in capital-intensive and graduate-intensive industries like chemicals, oil, electric power, steel, and computers.

1973 Nature 6 Apr. 382/3 Intelligence-intensive biology would take its place alongside this intelligence-intensive cosmology.

6. Medicine. Applied to a method of inoculation in which the intensity or strength of the matter introduced is increased in successive operations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [adjective] > type of immunotherapy

intensive1888

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 4/2 He mistook the phials, and made the first inoculation with the intensive matter which should be used for the second.

1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1049 A guinea-pig which had undergone ‘intensive treatment’ with Dr. Viquerat's serum had died ‘stuffed full of tubercle’.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 709.

7. Subject to intensification; characterized by being intensified.

ΚΠ

1888 J. T. Gulick in Linn. Soc. Jrnl. (Z.) XX. 197 A discussion of the principles of Intensive Segregation, under which name I class the different ways in which other principles combine with Segregation in producing Divergent Evolution.

8. intensive care: a form of medical treatment in which a patient is kept under concentrated and special observation; so intensive-care unit, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > intensive care

critical care1956

intensive care1963

1963 Lancet 19 Jan. 169/2 Our medical staff found the medical intensive-care unit so valuable that they requested..a separate surgical intensive-care unit.

1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) i. 40 He felt that patient monitoring was essential in the operating theatre and the intensive-care unit.

1965 Listener 16 Sept. 401/1 We would like to see intensive-care units in all large modern hospitals.

1967 Spectator 11 Aug. 159/2 This method of dealing with a serious cardiac emergency..is known as intensive care.

1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) ii. 14 Bart's at Trinity Hospital in intensive care, a single-bed room with a private nurse.

1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking x. 123 First, one of the general wards..and then to our new intensive care unit.

B. n.

Something that intensifies; spec. in Grammar an intensive word or prefix: see A. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > that which intensifies

intensive1813

intensative1853

magnificative1875

intensitive1879

elative1906

intensifier1931

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in intensity > one who or that which

redoubler1611

heightenera1656

intensifier1835

intensive1860

1813 W. Taylor Eng. Synonyms 38 Ætzen or ætschen is to eat into, to corrode; it is the intensive of the verb to eat.

1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 570 The use of mere sound as an accompaniment and intensive of sense.

1888 W. W. Skeat Etymol. Dict. at To- prefix Examples of the addition of al [= all] as an intensive, meaning ‘wholly’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	intensive
释义	intensiveadj.n. Brit. /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɛnsɪv/ Etymology: < French intensif, -ive (14–15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) = Italian intensivo , medieval or modern Latin intensīvus , < intens- , participial stem of intendĕre to stretch, strain: see intend n., intense adj. Late Latin had the parallel extensīvus extensive adj. A. adj. †1. Of very high degree or force, vehement: = intense adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] hardOE heavyc1000 highOE highlyOE stourc1275 largec1330 intensec1400 violent1430 profoundc1450 vehementc1485 intensive1526 advanceda1533 vengeable1532 Herculean1602 well-advanced1602 deep1605 dense1732 abysmal1817 intensitive1835 holy1837 high-level1860 major1942 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. eiiii^v It shalbe to euery christen man or woman more intensyue & feruent, than is the naturall loue. 1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 225 It was strange to see what intensiue loue euery one did beare vs. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. iii. 263 A very intensiue pleasure followes the passion, or displeasure. 1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision viii. 27 Call yonder Planet, Mercury, Whom such intensive Heat Will not Evaporate. †2. Strenuously directed upon something (quot. 1605); strained, earnest, eager, intent; = intense adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > characterized by attention studiousa1425 intensive1605 unwanderinga1864 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > carried out or proceeding with vigour stiffc1250 busyc1275 greatc1275 sternc1275 smart?a1400 stark1489 thronga1525 vigorous1524 stout1582 intensive1605 spiritful?1611 warm1627 intense1645 mettlesome1645 spirited1670 mettled1682 sturdy1697 energetic1700 vivid1702 robustful1800 toughish1840 lively1844 full out1920 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm2 Fascination is the power and act of Imagination, intensiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant. View more context for this quotation a1628 J. Preston Mount Ebal (1638) 5 It is nothing else but an intensive bending of the mind unto Christ. a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 1 Being almost tyred..with that assiduous attendance, and intensive circumspection. 1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 12 Intensive thinking is tedious, and tires. 3. a. Of, relating, or pertaining to intensity, or degree of intrinsic strength, depth, or fullness, as distinguished from external spatial extent or amount; of or pertaining to logical intension. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adjective] intensive1604 gradational1842 gradal1872 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree intensive1604 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [adjective] > relating to logical intension comprehensive1725 intensive1798 intensional1883 intensionalist1948 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 293 In every obiect of delight there is a certaine intensive goodnes and perfection, and there is an extensive. 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 61 The intensive infinity of the satisfaction for the sinnes of the world. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. i. 3 Concomitants, we may call, that almost illimited power, both Intensive, in sole Ordination; Jurisdiction..As also Extensive, over so vast a Diocesse. 1649 Jeanes Wks. Heaven on Earth in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxlv. 7 There must be an intensive greatness in our praises, in regard of the degree, fervour and heat of them. 1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 169 The part immerged of each Cylinder, bears the same proportion to the whole Cylinder, that the intensive gravity of the Cylinder bears to the intensive gravity of the Fluid. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 585 Were we endeavouring to characterize this work, in the dialect peculiar to Professor Kant, we should observe, that its intensive, like its extensive, magnitude is small. 1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. iv. 69 The record of an intensive as well as extensive development. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xi. 442–3 In all phenomena the Real has intensive quantity or degree. b. Having the quality or character of intensity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree > having the quality of intensity intensive1836 high-level1860 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vi. 231 Justice is an intensive exercise of holiness. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxiv. 100 Hearing is, however, much less extensive in its sphere of knowledge or perception than sight; but in the same proportion is its capacity of feeling or sensation more intensive. 1899 Q. Rev. Oct. 492 Friends whose reciprocal intensive criticism fanned each other's interest into flame. 4. Having the property of making intense; intensifying; esp. in Grammar, expressing intensity; giving force or emphasis; = intensative adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > intensifying intensive1608 enhancive1853 ascensive1857 intensative1872 elative1906 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > intensifying > intensified intensive1608 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 54 Aristophanes deriueth it from Alpha, an intensiue Particle, and Spizo which signifieth to extend. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. xi. 199 These Comparatives..seem sometimes to part with their relative Nature, and only retain their intensive. 1820 Mair's Lat. Dict. 414 Vē..is sometimes intensive..and sometimes privative. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 448 (note) The τις is intensive. 5. a. Economics. Applied to methods of cultivation, fishery, etc., which increase the productiveness of a given area: opposed to extensive in which the area of production is extended. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [adjective] intensive1832 piscicultural1856 cultural1868 fish-cultural1872 maricultural1903 sea-farming1962 1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. x. 324 The removal..of the tithes, gives scope both to a more extensive and a more intensive agriculture. 1865 Times 15 Apr. Ruin stares in the face the occupier whose farm premises are inadequate to the requirements of an ‘intensive cultivation’. 1889 Nature 3 Oct. 558/2 The necessity for increased food productions calls for intensive methods. 1899 19th Cent. No. 264. 300 There is little probability of their escaping from being caught..on account of the intensive fishery. b. Suffixed to nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘intensively using the thing specified’, as capital-intensive, labour-intensive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree > using (something) intensively intensive1957 1957 K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism vi. 218 The replacement of labor-intensive irrigation farming by labor-extensive cattle breeding. 1959 Listener 22 Oct. 666/1 We have the highly capital-intensive process of textile manufacture. 1970 Times 2 June (Container Suppl.) p. iii/4 The latest sophisticated container systems add up to a capital-intensive system of some magnitude. 1972 Guardian 29 June 15/5 The developing world..is beginning to see the case for labour-intensive farming. 1973 Nature 6 Apr. 378/2 Economies of scale have been operating in capital-intensive and graduate-intensive industries like chemicals, oil, electric power, steel, and computers. 1973 Nature 6 Apr. 382/3 Intelligence-intensive biology would take its place alongside this intelligence-intensive cosmology. 6. Medicine. Applied to a method of inoculation in which the intensity or strength of the matter introduced is increased in successive operations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [adjective] > type of immunotherapy intensive1888 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 4/2 He mistook the phials, and made the first inoculation with the intensive matter which should be used for the second. 1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1049 A guinea-pig which had undergone ‘intensive treatment’ with Dr. Viquerat's serum had died ‘stuffed full of tubercle’. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 709. 7. Subject to intensification; characterized by being intensified. ΚΠ 1888 J. T. Gulick in Linn. Soc. Jrnl. (Z.) XX. 197 A discussion of the principles of Intensive Segregation, under which name I class the different ways in which other principles combine with Segregation in producing Divergent Evolution. 8. intensive care: a form of medical treatment in which a patient is kept under concentrated and special observation; so intensive-care unit, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > intensive care critical care1956 intensive care1963 1963 Lancet 19 Jan. 169/2 Our medical staff found the medical intensive-care unit so valuable that they requested..a separate surgical intensive-care unit. 1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) i. 40 He felt that patient monitoring was essential in the operating theatre and the intensive-care unit. 1965 Listener 16 Sept. 401/1 We would like to see intensive-care units in all large modern hospitals. 1967 Spectator 11 Aug. 159/2 This method of dealing with a serious cardiac emergency..is known as intensive care. 1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) ii. 14 Bart's at Trinity Hospital in intensive care, a single-bed room with a private nurse. 1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking x. 123 First, one of the general wards..and then to our new intensive care unit. B. n. Something that intensifies; spec. in Grammar an intensive word or prefix: see A. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > that which intensifies intensive1813 intensative1853 magnificative1875 intensitive1879 elative1906 intensifier1931 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in intensity > one who or that which redoubler1611 heightenera1656 intensifier1835 intensive1860 1813 W. Taylor Eng. Synonyms 38 Ætzen or ætschen is to eat into, to corrode; it is the intensive of the verb to eat. 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 570 The use of mere sound as an accompaniment and intensive of sense. 1888 W. W. Skeat Etymol. Dict. at To- prefix Examples of the addition of al [= all] as an intensive, meaning ‘wholly’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1526
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