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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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... Symphony of fine musician, or sunset, or sea-waves rolling up the beach—what do they mean? Undoubtedly in the most subtle-elusive sense they mean something—as love does, and religion does, and the best poem;—but who shall fathom and define those meanings? (I do not intend this as a warrant for wildness and frantic escapades—but to justify the soul's frequent joy in what cannot be defined to the intellectual ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... if possible. They have made some flower baskets for me; and hoping they may obtain orders for more, I have recommended them to my friends. I have heard of another family, consisting of fourteen souls, who encamp on Bedminster Down, and there by God's help, I intend to send a minister of Jesus, to try what can be done for them. There is also another family expected, who have a house of their own at Bedminster, and who winter there. Should the Lord bless our humble endeavours, we must have a regular Committee, and set about our work in a workman-like manner; ...
— The Gipsies' Advocate - or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of - The English Gipsies • James Crabb

... does not; for you see all of the book that I ever intend to publish. It is only a handsome way of asking one's friends ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... of the day, writes: "The painters in Rome are divided by a broad line of demarcation into two parties—the one consisting of our friends and their adherents, the other of the united phalanx of those who are of the world, a set who intrigue and lie and backbite; they intend there shall not be light, come what will. The former are exemplary in their lives; the latter display the old licentiousness which characterised the German artists in Rome thirty years ago. Happily, at the present moment, the more talented ...
— Overbeck • J. Beavington Atkinson

... "What do you intend to do with me?" repeated Jack, as they hurried over the rough ground, following Bill, who trudged ahead ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton


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