immensive

English

Etymology

immense +‎ -ive

Adjective

immensive (comparative more immensive, superlative most immensive)

1. (obsolete) huge
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the King”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     A public light, in this immensive sphere

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

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