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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Purposed; designed;

as,

intended

harm or help

They drew a curse from an

intended

good.

Cowper.

Betrothed; affianced;

as, an

intended

husband

Noun.

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.

pp.

Designed; purposed; as, the insult was intended.

Stretched; made intense. [Little used.]