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extense
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extensus.
Noun
extense (plural extenses)
- (obsolete) extent; expanse
- 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.
- Nor canst thou cleave the crystal heaven
- 1859, Thomas Lake Harris, The Herald of Light (volume 4, page 185)
Adjective
extense (comparative more extense, superlative most extense)
- (obsolete) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.
Usage notes
- May still be encountered in Indian English translations.
Latin
Participle
ext?nse
- vocative masculine singular of ext?nsus
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, 1883–1887)
- extense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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extend
English
Etymology
From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extend? (“I stretch out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
- Hyphenation: ex?tend
Verb
extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)
- (intransitive) To increase in extent.
- (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- The desert extended for miles in all directions.
- (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
- (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
- (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend credit to a valued customer
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of G. P. Burnham to this entry?)
- 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts (page 155)
- […] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper.
- (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- Synonym: inherit
- (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
- 1993, The Leatherneck (volume 76, page xxxvi)
- Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
- 1993, The Leatherneck (volume 76, page xxxvi)
Synonyms
- enlarge
- expand
- increase
- lengthen
- stretch
- widen
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- dentex
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