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Webster 1913 Edition

Intend

In-tend′

(ĭn-tĕnd′)
,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
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.]
Syn. – To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.

Webster 1828 Edition

Intend

INTEND'

,
Verb.
T.
[L. intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from teneo; Gr. to stretch.]
1.
To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend.
By this the lungs are intended or remitted.
[This literal sense is now uncommon.]
2.
To mean; to design; to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. [This is now the usual sense.]
For they intended evil against thee. Ps.21.
3.
To regard; to fix the mind on; to attend; to take care of.
Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Phillip.
[This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.]
4.
To enforce; to make intense.

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