extense

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extensus.

Noun

extense (plural extenses)

  1. (obsolete) extent; expanse
    • 1795, Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion:
      […] for God is not extended, but yet is every where in all Extense […]
    • 1859, Thomas Lake Harris, The Herald of Light, volume 4, page 185:
      Nor canst thou cleave the crystal heaven
      To gather joys from thence;
      As fits thy life to thee is given
      The ocean's drear extense.

Adjective

extense (comparative more extense, superlative most extense)

  1. (obsolete) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

Usage notes

  • May still be encountered in Indian English translations.

Latin

Participle

extēnse

  1. vocative masculine singular of extēnsus

References

  • “extense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "extense", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “extense”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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