intensate

From intense +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/

intensate (third-person singular simple present intensates, present participle intensating, simple past and past participle intensated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To intensify.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.

   • 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits:

     Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.

• “intensate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.