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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.
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