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.
Intendancy
(In*tend"an*cy) n.; pl. Intendancies [Cf. F. intendance. See Intendant.]
1. The office or employment of an intendant.
2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
Intendant
(In*tend"ant) n. [F. intendant, fr. L. intendere to direct (one's thoughts) to a thing. See Intend.]
One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an
intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
Intendant
(In*tend"ant), a. [See Intend.] Attentive. [Obs.]
Intended
(In*tend"ed), a.
1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser.
