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protensive, a. rare.|prəʊˈtɛnsɪv|
[f. L. prōtens-, ppl. stem of prōtend-ĕre to protend + -ive.]
Having the quality of protending.
1. Extending in time; continuing, lasting, enduring.
1643[implied in protensively]. 1671J. Flavel Fount. Life xxix. Wks. 1731 II. 88 Our Patience is..according to the Will of God, when it is as extensive as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxviii. (1870) II. 372 Time is a protensive quantity, and, consequently, any part of it, however small, cannot, without a contradiction, be imagined as not divisible into parts. 1870Outline Hamilton's Philos. 217 Examples of the sublime..are manifested in the extensive sublime of Space and in the protensive sublime of Eternity.
2. Extending lengthwise; relating to or expressing linear extension, or magnitude of one dimension.
1836Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 310 In the study of Mathematics we are accustomed..to a protensive, rather than to either an extensive, a comprehensive, or an intensive, application of thought. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 763 Distance in a direction from the percipient or what we should call protensive distance.
Hence proˈtensively adv., (in quots.) in respect of duration or extension in time.
1643Trapp Comm. Gen. vi. 5 All the thoughts extensively are intensively onely evil, and protensively continually. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2322 Space cannot be thought of except as extensively, nor time except as protensively, infinite. |