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intended, ppl. a. (n.)|ɪnˈtɛndɪd|
[f. intend v. + -ed1.]
1. Purposed to be done or accomplished; designed, meant; designed to be what is denoted by the noun (cf. intending ppl. a. b); done on purpose, intentional.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 67 In Epistles Exhorting or Perswading, the intended vertue of goodnesse of every thing is more amply set forth by the opposite evill. 1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 37 You may prosecute your entended iourney. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. Pref. §1 A ful and intended Copy of that Piece which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously published before. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 31 Hammer it down to your intended Thickness. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. 341, I say this, with⁓out the least intended disrespect to the learned author. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. viii. 304 His intended bride sprang by direct..descent from the stock of the great ælfred.
†2. Stretched out or forth, outstretched; extended; increased in force or intensity, strained.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 38 With sharpe intended sting. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 58 b, I did take great pleasure with my intended admiration, in seeing of such..sumpteousnes. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. xviii. 9 My strong intended voice all the wide world shall fill. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 45 Unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years, damp my intended wing Deprest.
†3. Of a person: Minded, resolved, having the purpose; to be intended, to intend, to purpose. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 87 By this little crop, judge you..and how they are intended. 1586Day Eng. Secr. (1625) 138 O that you are intended..to marry unto him my neece, your yongest daughter upon a sudden. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis (1638) 425 Being now furiously intended of her death, she hastened, and yet often stucke at it. 1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc I. 102 He was intended to return into France, and to lay his bones by the bones of his Father Julius.
B. colloq. as n. An intended husband or wife.
1767Woman of Fashion II. 61 Continually taken up with his precious Intended. 1807W. Irving Salmag. 4 Apr., I see her doubting, hesitating, stand..And sigh for her intended in his place. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xii, What is the reason that men fall in love with me..and desert their chosen intendeds?
Hence inˈtendedness, the quality or fact of being intended.
1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 8 The perpetual tendency (or rather intendedness) of each and all toward (for) progressive improvement. |