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Integration (ĭnt�grāshŭn), n. [L. integratio a renewing, restoring: cf. F. intégration.]
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1. The act or process of making whole or entire.
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2. (Math.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See .
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☞ The symbol of integration is ∫ (standing for the Latin summa sum), and the integral is also regarded as the limiting value of the sum of great numbers of differentials, when the magnitude of the differentials decreases, and their number increases indefinitely. See , n. When the summation is made between specified values of the variable, the result is a definite integral, and those values of the variable are the limits of the integral. When the summation is made successively for two or more variables, the result is a multiple integral.
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3. In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
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Integrator (?), n. (Math. & Mech.) That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
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Integrity (?), n. [L. integritas: cf. F. intégrité. See , and cf. .]
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1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More.
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2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
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The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature.
Buckminster.
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Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth.
Cowper.
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3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
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Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
Sir M. Hale.
Syn. -- Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See .
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Integropallial (?), a. [L. integer whole + E. pallial.] (Zoöl.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.
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Integumation (?), n. [See .] That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.
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Integument (?), n. [L. integumentum, fr. integere to cover; pref. in- in, on + tegere to cover: cf. F. intégument. See 1st , and .] That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part.
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Integumentary (?), n. Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.
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Integumentation (?), n. The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
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Intellect (?), n. [L. intellectus, fr. intelligere, intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See .] 1. (Metaph.) The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
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2. The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.
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3. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect.
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Intellected (?), a. Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [R.]
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In body, and in bristles, they became
As swine, yet intellected as before.
Cowper.
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Intellection (?), n. [L. intellectio synecdoche: cf. F. intellection.] A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.
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Intellective (?), a. [Cf. F. intellectif.]
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1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
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2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill.
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3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
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Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics.
Milton.
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Intellectively, adv. In an intellective manner. [R.] “Not intellectivelly to write.” Warner.
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Intellectual (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]
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1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
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Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers.
I. Watts.
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2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
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Who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity?
Milton.
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3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
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4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy.
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Intellectual, n. 1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
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Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
Milton.
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I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.
De Quincey.
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2. A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, one who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television.
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Intellectualism (?), n. 1. Intellectual power; intellectuality.
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2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
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3. Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, an excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings.
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Intellectualist (?), n. 1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] Bacon.
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2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
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Intellectuality (?), n. [L. intellectualitas: cf. F. intellectualité.] Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
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Intellectualize (?), v. t. 1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion.
Lowell.
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2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
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Intellectually, adv. In an intellectual manner.
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Intelligence (?), n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See .]
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1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
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2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
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And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.
Spenser.
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3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
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Intelligence is given where you are hid.
Shak.
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4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.]
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He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.
Clarendon.
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5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. Specifically; (Mil.) Information about an enemy or potential enemy, his capacities, and intentions.
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I write as he that none intelligence
Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.
Court of Love.
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6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. Milton.
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The great Intelligences fair
That range above our mortal state,
In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there.
Tennyson.
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7. (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.
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Coloq. Intelligence office , an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
Syn. -- Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.
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Intelligencer (?), n. One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
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All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle.
Burke.
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Intelligencing (?), a. Informing; giving information; talebearing. [Obs.] Shak.
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That sad intelligencing tyrant.
Milton.
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Intelligency (?), n. Intelligence. [Obs.] Evelyn.
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Intelligent (?), a. [L. intelligens, intellegens, -entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive; inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F. intelligent. See .]
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1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.
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2. Possessed of a high level of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; exhibiting high intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.
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3. Cognizant; aware; communicative. [Obs.]
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Intelligent of seasons.
Milton.
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Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state.
Shak.
Syn. -- Sensible; understanding. See .
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Intelligential (?), a. [Cf. F. intelligentiel.] [R.]
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1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. “With act intelligential.” Milton.
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2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal.
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Food alike those pure
Intelligential substances require.
Milton.
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Intelligentiary (?), n. One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.
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Intelligently (?), adv. In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
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intelligentsia n. an educated and intellectual{2} elite; intellectuals, collectively or considered as a class.
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Intelligibility (?), [Cf. F. intelligilibilité.] The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
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Intelligible (?), [L. intellegibilis: cf. F. intelligible. See .] Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc.
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets.
Coleridge.
Syn. -- Comprehensible; perspicuous; plain; clear.
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Intelligibleness, n. The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke.
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Intelligibly, adv. In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.
{ Intemerate (?), Intemerated (?), } a. [L. intemeratus; pref. in- not + temeratus defiled.] Pure; undefiled. [Obs.]
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Intemerateness (?), n. The state of being unpolluted; purity. [Obs.] Donne.
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Intemperament (?), n. A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. [R.] Harvey.
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Intemperance (?), n. [F. intempérance, L. intemperantia. See not, and .]
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1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.
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God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance.
Jer. Taylor.
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Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
In meats and drinks.
Milton.
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2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
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Intemperancy (?), n. Intemperance. [Obs.]
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Intemperant (?), a. [L. intemperans, -antis. See not, and .] Intemperate. [Obs.]
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Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts.
Udall.
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Intemperate (?), a. [L. intemperatus. See not, and .] 1. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion.
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2. Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
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3. Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
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Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst.
Milton.
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Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing.
Ecclus. xxiii. 13.
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Intemperate (?), v. t. To disorder. [Obs.]
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Intemperately (?), adv. In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.
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The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion.
Burke.
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Intemperateness, n. 1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
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2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle.
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By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors.
Sir M. Hale.
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Intemperature (?; 135), n. [Cf. OF. intemperature.] Intemperateness. [Obs.] Boyle.
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Intempestive (?), a. [L. intempestivus: cf. F. intempestif. See not, and .] Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton.
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Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing.
Hales.
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Intempestively, adv. Unseasonably. [Obs.]
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Intempestivity (?), n. [L. intempestivitas: cf. F. intempestivité.] Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.
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Intenable (?), a. [Pref. in- not + tenable: cf. F. intenable.] Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.
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Intend (ĭntĕnd), v. 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 .]
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1. To stretch; to extend; to distend. [Obs.]
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By this the lungs are intended or remitted.
Sir M. Hale.
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2. To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]
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When a bow is successively intended and remedied.
Cudworth.
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3. To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Magnetism may be intended and remitted.
Sir I. Newton.
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4. To apply with energy.
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Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction.
Emerson.
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5. To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic] Shak.
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6. To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. [Obs.]
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Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip.
Bacon.
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My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying.
Fuller.
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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.
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They intended evil against thee.
Ps. xxi. 11.
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To-morrow he intends
To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.
Shak.
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8. To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold. [Obs.]
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Modesty was made
When she was first intended.
Beau. & Fl.
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9. To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. [Obs.]
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Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio.
Shak.
Syn. -- To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.
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Intendancy (?), n.; pl. Intendancies (#). [Cf. F. intendance. See .]
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1. The office or employment of an intendant.
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2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
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Intendant (?), n. [F. intendant, fr. L. intendere to direct (one's thoughts) to a thing. See .] One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
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Intendant, a. [See .] Attentive. [Obs.]
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Intended, a. 1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser.
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2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.
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They drew a curse from an intended good.
Cowper.
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3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
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Intended, n. One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.
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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.
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Intendedly, adv. Intentionally. [R.] Milton.
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Intendent (?), n. See , n. [Obs.]
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Intender (?), n. One who intends. Feltham.
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Intendiment (?), n. [LL. intendimentum. See .] Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Intendment (?), n. [OE. entendement understanding, insight, F. entendement, fr. LL. intendimentum. See .]
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1. Charge; oversight. [Obs.] Ford.
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2. Intention; design; purpose.
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The intendment of God and nature.
Jer. Taylor.
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3. (Law) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.
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Intenerate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intenerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Intenerating.] [Pref. in- in + L. tener soft, tender. See , a.] To make tender or sensitive; to soften.
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