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.