Defn: To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
INTENSIFY
In*ten"si*fy, v. i.
Defn: To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
INTENSION In*ten"sion, n. Etym: [L. intensio: cf. F. intension. See Intend, and cf. Intention.]
1. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
2. Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.
3. (Logic & Metaph.)
Defn: The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
INTENSITIVE
In*ten"si*tive, a.
Defn: Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence. H. Sweet.