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Intend   /ɪntˈɛnd/   Listen
verb
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



... from a post-office and a world away from the things that make life most worth living. If he were an ordinary boy, I might be led to think differently. But my Dinkie is not an ordinary boy. There's a spark of the unusual, of the exceptional, in that laddie. And I intend to fan that spark, whatever the cost may be, until it breaks out ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... quasi-paternal duty is to stop you before certain danger. You admit that you adore this young star of seventeen, the daughter of a philosopher of high standing. You do not intend, I suppose, to make her ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt
... Eric; "still, they're not going to get the better of me, for I intend to load the wheelbarrow with their guano, whether ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... applied above the forceps, in order to press back the blood in the vessel. He then begins to twist the artery. One of the methods consists in continuing the torsion until the part held in the forceps is detached. When, however, the operator does not intend to produce that effect, he ceases, after from four to six revolutions of the vessel on its axis for the small arteries, and from eight to twelve for the large ones. The hemorrhage instantly stops. The vessel which had been drawn out is ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt
... back to me; the Englishman, alive or dead. The other three must be brought back to me alive, and, the girl at least, absolutely uninjured; and remember that in the case of Fonseca, the less he is injured the more acutely will he suffer from the punishment that I intend to inflict upon him for his treachery! Now, forward all; to the house first, and from there spread yourselves over the country in the ...
— A Middy in Command - A Tale of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood


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