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▪ I. † inˈtendance1 Obs.
Also 4–6 entendaunce, 7 erron. intendants.
[a. OF. entendance (12th c. in Godef.) attention, etc., f. entendre, entendant, to intend.]
Application of the mind; attention.
1390Gower Conf. III. 359 All freshe I sigh hem springe and daunce, And do to love her entendaunce. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 10 All the wordes of thys holy seruyce oughte to be sayde or songe wyth entendaunce therto. c1540R. Hyrde Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) B ij, The maide whom wee would have specially good requireth all intendance both of Father and Mother. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 325 When a hawke hath bene recovered of some great greefe by good keeping and intendance. 1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 95 It were long to recite all their deuout intendants, all their strict obseruances.
▪ II. intendance2|ɪnˈtɛndəns|
[a. F. intendance (1595 in Godef. Compl.), f. intendant intendant n.: see -ance.]
The function of an intendant; superintendence, direction; intendancy; spec. a department of the French public service, or the officials conducting it, as the war commissariat, etc.
1739Cibber Apol. (1756) II. 90 Which province..was the only one we car'd to trust to his particular intendance. 1839James Louis XIV, IV. 291 The real intendance of public buildings was held by the famous Mansard. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 250 They stipulated..that the Roman Catholic schools should be exclusively under the intendance of inspectors professing that faith. 1880Kinglake Crimea VI. v. 95 The French Intendance and the English Commissariat must meet as best they might the huge accession of wants.
b. The official quarters or office of an intendant.
1895G. Parker in Atlantic Monthly (U.S.) Mar. 301 There was yet an hour before I was to go to the intendance. |