Lexic.us

Definition of Intend

1. Verb. Have in mind as a purpose. "They intend to move "; "We thought to return early that night"

2. Verb. Design or destine. "She was intended to become the director"

3. Verb. Mean or intend to express or convey. "What do his words intend?"

4. Verb. Denote or connote. "An example sentence would show what this word means"

Definition of Intend

1. v. t. To stretch; to extend; to distend.

Definition of Intend

1. Verb. To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose. ¹

2. Verb. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard. ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend. ¹

4. Verb. To strain; make tense. ¹

5. Verb. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen. ¹

6. Verb. To apply with energy. ¹

7. Verb. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey. ¹

8. Verb. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold. ¹

9. Verb. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intend

1. to have as a specific aim or purpose [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intend

intemperance intemperances intemperancy intemperant intemperate intemperately intemperateness intemperature intemperaunce intempestive

intempestively intempestivity intenable intence intencely intend (current term) intendance intendances intendancies intendancy

intendant intendants intended intendedly intendeds intender intenders intendest intendeth intendiment

Literary usage of Intend

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"There is not the slightest evidence that 'Sumner did not intend to make Bankhead a deed at the appointed time, or that Bankhead did not intend to pay the ..."

2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... though the captain did not intend to do, it frighted fome other men in the fhip; and ibme of them had put it in the heads .of the reft, that the captain ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... and other charitable purposes as I do intend to name hereafter, after all my worldly property is disposed of to the best advantage. ..."

4. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"Do you intend Tamburlaine to represent earthquakes and volcanoes ?" As for Dorothea, nothing could have pleased her more, unless it had been a miraculous ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The fertility of the soil is perhaps a vague title, but by it I intend to signify the greater or less power which a piece of land possesses of producing ..."

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