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Definition of Intending
1. intend [v] - See also: intend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intending
Literary usage of Intending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... fome ten men in a boat, intending, no doubt, to have come on board and plundered
the fhip ; and if they had found us there, to have carried us away for ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"... quando"—intending, of course, a mere figure of speech ; and from the class of
modern authors who use really nothing to write with but steel and gold, ..."
3. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"... he presently wills some given act; intending the act (as the consequence of
the volition), and intending some further event (as the consequence of the ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"I am intending, however, neither arraignment nor excuse, but a bare statement of
what were to me rather surprising facts. RESPIRATION IN PLANTS. ..."