请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 intender
释义

intendern.

/ɪnˈtɛndə/
Forms: Also 1500s intendour, entendour.
Etymology: < intend v. + -er suffix1. With the form entendour compare Old French entendeour, -eor (13th cent. in Godefroy), modern French entendeur understander, hearer.
1. One who intends or purposes.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > one who intends or purposes
purposerc1475
intendera1535
aimer1588
pretender1591
pretendant1598
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 44/2 Well perceyuyng that the intendours [1568 Grafton entendours] of suche a purpose, wolde rather haue hadde theyr harneys on theyr backes.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxii. sig. O4 I will rather blesse them, as instruments; then condemne them, as not intenders.
1660 Plea Ministers Sequest. 8 He cannot deny us to be pretenders (and intenders too) to Godliness.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 148 An intender of Publique charity.
2. A claimant, pretender. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > claimant to office of ruler
pretender1593
intender1640
1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 185 Henry of Spaine, son of King John the Intender.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.a1535
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/11 9:42:38