 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intended
adjective
1: intentional or planned; "your intended trip abroud"; "an
intended insult" [ant: {unintended}]
2: future; betrothed; "his intended bride"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intend \In*tend"\ ([i^]n*t[e^]nd"), verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. To stretch; to extend; to distend. [Obs.]
By this the lungs are intended or remitted. --Sir M.
Hale.
2. To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]
When a bow is successively intended and remedied.
--Cudworth.
3. To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Magnetism may be intended and remitted. --Sir I.
Newton.
4. To apply with energy.
Let him intend his mind, without respite, without
rest, in one direction. --Emerson.
5. To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.
[Archaic] --Shak.
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. --Bacon.
My soul, not being able to intend two things at
once, abated of its fervency in praying. --Fuller.
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. --Ps. xxi. 11.
To-morrow he intends
To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.
--Shak.
8. To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to
mold. [Obs.]
Modesty was made
When she was first intended. --Beau. & Fl.
9. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intended \In*tend"ed\, adjective
1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
[Obs.] --Spenser.
2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.
They drew a curse from an intended good. --Cowper.
3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intended \In*tend"ed\, noun
One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an
affianced lover.
If it were not that I might appear to disparage his
intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be
throwing herself away. --Dickens.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "intended":
advised, affianced, aimed, aimed at, assured, betrothed, bound,
bride-to-be, calculated, committed, compromised, conscious,
considered, contemplated, contracted, deliberate, deliberated,
designed, engaged, envisaged, envisioned, fiance, fiancee, future,
guaranteed, implied, intentional, knowing, meant, meditated,
obligated, of design, planned, pledged, plighted, projected,
promised, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, studied,
sworn, teleological, underwritten, voluntary, warranted, willful,
witting
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