Crossword clues for intend
intend
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intend \In*tend"\ ([i^]n*t[e^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intended; p. pr. & vb. n. Intending.] [OE. entenden to be attentive, F. entendre, fr. L. intendre, intentum, and intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. in- in + tendere to stretch, stretch out. See Tend.]
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To stretch; to extend; to distend. [Obs.]
By this the lungs are intended or remitted.
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To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]
When a bow is successively intended and remedied.
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To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.Magnetism may be intended and remitted.
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To apply with energy.
Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction.
--Emerson. To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic]
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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.
--Bacon.My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying.
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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.
--Ps. xxi. 11.To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.
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To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold. [Obs.]
Modesty was made When she was first intended.
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To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. [Obs.]
Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio.
--Shak.Syn: To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "direct one's attention to," from Old French entendre, intendre "to direct one's attention" (in Modern French principally "to hear"), from Latin intendere "turn one's attention, strain," literally "stretch out, extend," from in- "toward" (see in- (2)) + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). Sense of "have as a plan" (late 14c.) was present in Latin. A Germanic word for this was ettle, from Old Norse ætla "to think, conjecture, propose," from Proto-Germanic *ahta "consideration, attention" (cognates: Old English eaht, German acht). Intended (n.) "one's intended husband or wife" is from 1767.
Wiktionary
vb. To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.
WordNet
v. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" [syn: mean, think]
design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: destine, designate, specify]
mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" [syn: mean]
denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" [syn: mean, signify, stand for]
Wikipedia
Intend, and its variations, may refer to:
- Intendant, the holder of a public administrative office in several countries
- Intended, a person engaged or betrothed to be married
- Intended reader, a member of a target audience
- Intending cross or memorial cross to commemorate an event
- Intend Change, a 1999 consulting business
Usage examples of "intend".
Sergeant Aarhus will accompany her, for he intends to serve as her personal bodyguard.
Fleming and Hees submitted drafts of their intended remarks to the Prime Minister, had them approved, then flew to Accra accompanied by six Canadian correspondents.
New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.
The people of Massachusetts were to have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, and in an article intended to prevent the formation of a hereditary monarchy, an expanded version of a similar article in the Virginia constitution, Adams wrote: No man, nor corporation or association of men have any other title to obtain advantages or particular and exclusive privileges distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public.
FOR HIS OWN PART, for the time being, Adams knew for certain only that he was exhausted and intended never again to be separated from Abigail for any extended period for as long as he lived.
Deeply hurt, Adams had written an extraordinary reply, a dissertation on the subject of vanity set forth in his clearest, plainest hand, as if intended for posterity as much as for Gerry.
The roji was intended to break connection with the outside world, and produce a fresh sensation conducive to the full enjoyment of aestheticism in the tea-room itself.
In the midst of the battle, these troops having moved towards the enemy, as if intending to make an attack, turned suddenly around, and opened a heavy fire of artillery and musketry on the columns by the aids of which they had a few moments before been fighting.
Fifth Alauda was to march east with him to the Rhodanus valley, where he intended to settle its men on equally good land.
Instead of doing so he allows Esther to read them, intending to burn them afterwards.
All at once we heard that he had gone to live up the Alm and did not intend ever to come down again, and since then he has led his solitary life on the mountain side at enmity with God and man.
The poor, mangled, much-distorted text about the tree lying as it falls was brought to the fore once again, and, instead of bearing reference to universal charity and almsgiving as it was intended to do, was ruthlessly torn from its context and turned into a parable about the state of the soul at death.
Qoran were followed, and, secondly, that the tax into which the duty of almsgiving had been converted was promptly paid, and that the portion of it intended for the central fund at Medina was duly delivered.
When at last the persecutors had discovered the hiding-place of Amphibalus, Alban, in order to aid his escape, changed garments with the deacon, and allowed himself to be taken in his stead, while Amphibalus made his way into Wales, where, however, he was ultimately captured and was brought back by the persecutors, who possibly intended to put him to death at Verulamium, but for some reason which we do not understand he was executed about four miles from the city at a spot where the village of Redbourn now stands, the parish church of which is dedicated to him.
Loreley had decreed to attract a soul thither, or Amphion, the enchanter, intended there to build a city.