Word Meanings - INTEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

intentum, and intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. 1. To stretch' to extend; to distend. By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale. 2. To strain; to make tense. When a bow is successively intended and remedied.

Additional info about word: INTEND

intentum, and intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. 1. To stretch' to extend; to distend. By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale. 2. To strain; to make tense. When a bow is successively intended and remedied. Cudworth. 3. To intensify; to strengthen. 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. Shak. 6. To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. 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 ; 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. Modesty was made When she was first intended. Beau. & Fl. 9. To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio. Shak. Syn. -- To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTEND)

• Aim Seek
• level
• propose
• design
• affect
• intend
• mean
• purpose
• Contemplate
• Meditate
• behold
• observe
• ponder
• study
• project
• Destine
• Purpose
• doom
• ordain
• devote
• Project Throw
• cast
• hurl
• propel
• shoot
• discharge
• propound
• forecast
• jut
• extend
• reach
• bulge
• stand out
• Purpose Intend
• determine
• resolve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTEND)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to INTEND)

• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• PROPELLER
  1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.