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protend, v. Now rare.|prəʊˈtɛnd|
[ME. ad. L. prōtend-ĕre to stretch forth, extend: f. pro-1 1 a + tendĕre to stretch; cf. obs. F. protend-re (1404 in Godef.) to extend, a variant of portendre: see portend.]
I.
1. trans. To stretch forth; to hold out in front of one. Also fig.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 217 In whiche yere ij. horrible blasynge sterres apperede..protendenge [orig. protendentes] grete flammes from theym into the northe. 1656Blount Glossogr., Protend, to set, put, cast, or stretch forth. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. iv. i. (1731) 127 Not stamps or impressions passively printed upon the soul from without, but ideas vitally protended or actively exerted from within it self. 1715–20Pope Iliad xv. 888 [Ajax] Now shakes his spear, now lifts, and now protends. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxix. IX. 25 The spears were protended, the trumpets sounded.
b. intr. for refl. To stretch forward; to stick out, protrude.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 66/1 Its two horns or wings protending forwards. 1848Clough Bothie iii, Prone, with hands and feet protending.
2. trans. To extend in length, or in one dimension of space; to produce (a line); usually pass. to extend, stretch, reach (from one point to another). Also fig.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 49 The thridde parte, which is Affrica, is protendede from the weste in to the meridien in to the coste of Egipte. Ibid. II. 35 Kynge Offa causede a longe diche to be made..whiche..protendethe hit vn to the durre of the floode of Dee behynde Chestre. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 126 One entire street..protended in a right line from the Castle to Holy-rood-house. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 3 London is more protended in length. 1876Alexander Bampton Lect. (1877) 9 Whether, and how far, the thought and personality of the Psalmists were protended to, and absorbed by, the Divine object of their contemplation.
b. To extend in magnitude or amount.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 319 Protending and contracting it..according to the rate and assise of the Office. 1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 244 He begetteth or Principleth the Number next in Nature, and that is Two... The Monad is Protended, which begetteth Two.
3. To extend in duration; to protract, prolong.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 189 Hit awe to be protended unto þe eve of the xxjti day. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 150 All..high Fasts were protended and reached to the evening thereof. 1836Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 301 The starry Heaven..protends it also to the illimitable times of their periodic movement.
II.
†4. To portend, foretoken. (In quot. 1589 absol.) Obs.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 22 That Comets did protend at the first blaze. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 205 This protendeth the birth of a beast and not of a man.
Hence proˈtended ppl. a., proˈtending vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 267 The protending of the Hand towards the West. 1697Dryden æneid ii. 299 They lie protected there, By her large buckler, and protended spear. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 26 A huge protending rock. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxi. (1818) II. 224 The terrific and protended jaws of the stag-beetle. |