Word: incessive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin incessus + -ive, from Latin incesso + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɛs.ɪv/ 1. Intense and active. Example: 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 animals. Example: The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people. 2. Fierce; cruel and aggressive. Example: 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! Example: War, the institution, the incessive monster which devours whole peoples, the world has learned to hate. 3. Continual or successive; unceasing. Example: 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. Example: 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. 4. Tending to incite or inflame; incensive. Example: 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. Example: "Thou hast asked me who I am," He began in the same low incessive accents. 5. Insightful; deep and succinct; incisive. Example: 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. Example: 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. 6. Critical and accurate; incisive. Example: 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. Example: My dear Angelina completed the predicate for me with a voluminous appendix, annotated through the agency of her incessive and florid vocabulary. 7. Intruding inward. Example: On the right cheek, just below the incessive tearing, and only a mild redness. Example: In the new genus Bathyopsurus, the incessive part and the lacinia (on the left mandible) are well developed. 8. Included. Example: 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 English; but in excellent English it always has (so far as we remember) an incessive sense — " to rise upon the feet and stand " — which is wanting here. Example: ...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). 9. Synonym of inessive. Example: 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”). Example: 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 speeches under consideration (For their details see respective volumes of the 'Studies in T.H.L.' 1988-92). 10. Durative. Example: 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 pre-terminative succession can be confused with the incessive process (the explicator ) of a state of an event denoted by a verb. Example: In Thao, however, triplication does not express plurality but rather some sort of aspectual modification (continuative or incessive).