Crossword clues for intending
intending
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of intend English)
Usage examples of "intending".
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.
Instead of doing so he allows Esther to read them, intending to burn them afterwards.
She and her squadrons began a series of heavy accelerations between Magaria, Barbas, and Rinconell, intending to provide a bulwark against any retaliation from the Home Fleet at Zanshaa.
The girl was evidently intending to leave Beaverwood, for she was fully dressed and carrying a small suitcase.
Was the concertmaster actually intending to marry Bellini and had she ever been divorced from Ochs?
Twice he stood near his old camera, and turned round to Bernardine intending to make some remark.
Here we come clodhopping in, intending to misuse her for our egotistic goals.
In order that the intending penitent may look to Him alone, the Lord instituted the Holy Supper, which confirms the remission of sins in those who repent, and does so because everyone is kept looking to the Lord alone in it.
My warriors were bewildered and somewhat disbelieving when I rose to my feet to quit the chamber, yet did they follow me without reluctance, intending to find, themselves, the truth of the matters I had spoken of.
He was so dictatorial that his fellow directors were left in cabal over the increasing domineeringness of old Forsyte, which they were far from intending to stand much longer, they said.
Dreadnaught you just left or the Dreadnaught you were intending to travel to.
In this state of happy feeling, they call at the Eureka Hotel, on their way home, intending to have a finishing glass.
I have often seen in his paintings that he has got his figures rather below life size, when apparently intending that they should be fullsized, and worse than this, that some are smaller in proportion than others.
Danlo prayed and wept, and he left their hut intending to go outside the cave to find some fireflowers to put on their grave.
Sacramento City was then the final rendezvous of all those bound for the mines, some forty miles in the wilderness of mountains to the east, Thure and Bud, naturally, had headed straight for this town, intending, when there, to find someone going to Hangtown, with whom they might journey to this mining camp, where they hoped to find their fathers and their friends.