Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Intended"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Intend \In*tend"\, 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}.]
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Intended \In*tend"ed\, a.
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Intended \In*tend"ed\, n.
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

intended
adj 1: intentional or planned; "your intended trip abroud"; "an
intended insult" [ant: {unintended}]
2: future; betrothed; "his intended bride"


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