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Intend   /ɪntˈɛnd/   Listen
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Intend  v. t.  (past & past part. intended; pres. part. intending)  
1.
To stretch; to extend; to distend. (Obs.) "By this the lungs are intended or remitted."
2.
To strain; to make tense. (Obs.) "When a bow is successively intended and remedied."
3.
To intensify; to strengthen. (Obs.) "Magnetism may be intended and remitted."
4.
To apply with energy. "Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction."
5.
To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. (Archaic)
6.
To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. (Obs.) "Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip." "My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying."
7.
To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain. "They intended evil against thee." "To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends."
8.
To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold. (Obs.) "Modesty was made When she was first intended."
9.
To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. (Obs.) "Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio."
Synonyms: To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.






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"Intend" Quotes from Famous Books



... Overjoyed at finding such an asylum, I remained in the humble cot. This is the third day I have lived under the roof, freed of my hellish assailants, spending my time in prayer, and writing out this my journal, which I have fashioned to stick in with my printed work, and to which I intend to add portions while I remain in this pilgrimage state, which, I find too well, ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg

... upon their arms all night. On the twenty-fifth, in the morning, the French army marched forwards in columns, and began to cannonade the allies very severely, marching and counter-marching continually, and seeming to intend three attacks, on the right, the left, and the centre. In the evening their artillery appeared much superior to that of the allies. The army was again ordered to lie all night on their arms; his royal highness caused a battery at the end of the wood to be repaired; count Schulenberg ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... all, Mrs Beazeley, when I am dressed. Let me have my breakfast as soon as you can, for I must be off again to the cove. I did not intend ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... not intend to go back now to my inner tragedy. As to love in general, from the standpoint of a sceptic in regard to the world and its manifestations, I might say with Solomon, "Vanitas vanitatum;" but I should ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... related to anger and hatred; are yet found to give additional force to the prevailing passion. It is a common artifice of politicians, when they would affect any person very much by a matter of fact, of which they intend to inform him, first to excite his curiosity; delay as long as possible the satisfying it; and by that means raise his anxiety and impatience to the utmost, before they give him a full insight into the business. They know that his curiosity ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume


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