incessive

Adjective

incessive (comparative more incessive, superlative most incessive)

1. Intense and active.
   • In both species it is impossible for the eye to follow the incessive movements of the feet, and to compare them with those of other quadrupeds, but from their chrono-photographic images it is easy to see that, taking the order of the movements of the limbs as a standard, the lizards are trotting...1894, George Chapman Caldwell, The American Chemist, page 502
   • The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people.1930, Margaret Sanger, The Birth Control Review - Volumes 14-15, page 233

   Synonyms:

   maximal, passing, utmost, extreme, ferocious, exquisite, intense, almighty, greatest, highest

2. Fierce; cruel and aggressive.
   • What strange lessons of preistly domination do we read in the institutions of Knights Templar, the preaching of Crusades against the Infidel, and those bitter, incessive dissensions between kings and popes!1860, John Tomlinson, Rambles twenty miles round Doncaster, page 65
   • War, the institution, the incessive monster which devours whole peoples, the world has learned to hate.1929, Legislative Documents - Volume 18, Issues 46-57, page 13

   Synonyms:

   barbarous, inhuman, furious, savage, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, flagitious, demonic

3. Continual or successive; unceasing.
   • Some Northern Murdochs may be of the same stock of the Murthacs of Rothes, heirs of the Pollocks, and progenitors through incessive heiresses of the Watsons and Leslies of Rothes.1904, John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson, Scottish Notes and Queries, page 124
   • We passed the Great Bras d'Or on the ice at the imminent risk of our lives, so rotten had the ice become owing to the effect of five or six days incessive thaw.1978, George Geddie Patterson, W. James MacDonald, Patterson's History of Victoria County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   constant, incessant, unending, amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, continual, continuate, continuous, dreich

4. Tending to incite or inflame; incensive.
   • There is an incessive bravery about the book, that tells you at once that the writer is in the deepest sympathy with the great soul whem he portrays, and the cause for which the martyred one bled.1866, The Freed-man - Volume 2, page 249
   • "Thou hast asked me who I am," He began in the same low incessive accents.1913, Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, The Daughter of Brahma, page 325

   Synonyms:

   incendious, inflammatory

5. Insightful; deep and succinct; incisive.
   • We suppose cold, clear, incessive, and formal reasoning; the expression of the greatest possible amount of truth in the simplest and fewish possible words, and the avoidance of anything in the shape of high-flown or flowery language.1903, The Tablet - Volume 102, page 622
   • His preaching is characterized by spiritual insight, incessive utterance, luminous presentation of truth, and over it all there is the glow of a refined imagination which charms while it impresses.1912, The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Volume 32, page 95

   Synonyms:

   observant, perceptive, to the point

6. Critical and accurate; incisive.
   • Here he engaged in a controversy with Voltaire, in which he was lashed by the incessive wit and satire of his own countrymen, and obliged to retire to France, where he died at Basel in 1759.1881, Calcutta Review, volume 73, page 76
   • My dear Angelina completed the predicate for me with a voluminous appendix, annotated through the agency of her incessive and florid vocabulary.1879, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art
7. Intruding inward.
   • On the right cheek, just below the incessive tearing, and only a mild redness.1943 January, H.D. Rosenbaum, “Varicella and the Cornea*: A Case Report”, in American Journal of Ophthalmology, volume 26, number 1
   • In the new genus Bathyopsurus, the incessive part and the lacinia (on the left mandible) are well developed.1951, Hans Pettersson, Nils Gunnar Jerlov, Börje Kullenberg, Reports of the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition, 1947-1948, page 206
8. Included.
   • The opening sentence is very risky. " I found myself standing on my feet " is apt to destroy all proper solemnity of feeling by suggesting that it would, on the whole, have been more remarkable if the gentleman had found himself standing on his head. To " stand upon one's feet " is indeed excellent...1889 -, The Academy - Volume 35, page 53
   • ...that which lies very much within the frame, that which is incessant, or certainly 'incessive' (it lies within the frame), but which exceeds our perception not because invisible (out of frame) but in spite of being visible (in the frame).2012, William Brown, “Monstrous cinema”, in New Review of Film and Television Studies, volume 10, number 4
9. Synonym of inessive.
   • The Hungarian 'incessive' -ban/-ben (e.g., ha'z-ban “in the house”, ke'z-ben “in the hand”) arose from the postposition benn; today it appears in a non-case form only in adverbial usage with possessive suffixes (e.g., bennem “in me”, benned “in you”).1990, Henning Andersen, E.F.K. Koerner, Historical Linguistics 1987, →ISBN
   • In this too the loc. marker is identical with Acc. marker. Besides, various spatial relations of the loc. case, such as surfacessive (on, upon, etc.) incessive (in, inside of, within), possessive (with-in the possession ol), etc., are expressed with various sets of . - postpositions in different...1994, D. D. Sharma, Studies in Tibeto-Himalayan languages - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 110

   Synonyms:

   inessive

10. Durative.
    • The presence of the feature progression means that the activity denoted by the primary verb is understood as a succession of events indicated by this verb either directed towards a goal (pre-terminative) or directed from a point with its goal unspecified (post" inceptive). In this sense the...1967, A Reference Grammar of Hindi
    • In Thao, however, triplication does not express plurality but rather some sort of aspectual modification (continuative or incessive).2005, Bernhard Hurch, Studies on Reduplication, →ISBN, page 591