extense

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extensus.

Noun

extense (plural extenses)

(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)

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

Usage notes

May still be encountered in Indian English translations.

Latin

Participle

extense

vocative masculine singular of extensus

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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