INTEND', verb transitive [Latin 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. Psalms 21:11. 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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