protensiveadj.

1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xxix. 389 Our patience is..according to the will of God, when it is as extensive, as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxviii. 372 Time is a protensive quantity, and, consequently, any part of it, however small, cannot, without a contradiction, be imagined as not divisible into parts.

1870 Outline Hamilton's Philos. 217 Examples of the sublime..are manifested in the extensive sublime of Space and in the protensive sublime of Eternity.

1904 G. S. Fullerton Syst. Metaph. xxviii. 467 My consciousness is both extensive and protensive.

1928 C. A. Ruckmick Mental Life 83 Just as the extensive attribute furnishes the basis for the spatial percept, so does the durational or protensive attribute of mental processes make possible our awareness of the lapse of time.

1991 S. J. Bolanowski & G. A. Gescheider Ratio Scaling of Psychol. Magnitude 36 Duration in the physical realm represents an extensive (or more accurately, a protensive) perceptual continuum.

1836 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 452 In the study of Mathematics we are accustomed..to a protensive, rather than to either an extensive, a comprehensive, or an intensive, application of thought.

1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 763 Distance in a direction from the percipient or what we should call protensive distance.