intemperature 
Yet doth it not follow that any one man, with the mul- 
titude, should run to Rome to suck the infection of dis- 
solute intemi/erature. Ford, Line of Life. 
Great intemperatures of the air, especially in point of 
heat. Boyle, Works, V. 58. 
intemperoUSt (in-tem'per-us), a. [Irreg. < 
intemper(ate) + -ous.~] Intemperate. 
And rather would, hearts so intemperous 
Should not enjoy nun-, than imploy mee thus. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas. 
intempestivet (in-tem-pes'tiv), a. [= F. in- 
teipestif = Sp. Pg. It. internpestivo, < L. intem- 
pestivus, untimely, unseasonable, < in- priy. + 
tempestivus, timely, seasonable: see tempestive.] 
Unseasonable ; untimely. 
Intempestive laughing, weeping, sighing. 
Burton, Auat. of Mel., p. 233. 
intempestivelyt (in-tem-pes'tiv-li), adv. Un- 
seasonably. 
That sound true opinion that in all Christian professions 
there is way to salvation (which I think you think) may 
have been so incommodiously or intempestively sometimes 
uttered by you. Donne, Letters, xc. 
intempestiyityt (in-tem-pes-tiv'i-ti), n. [< L. 
intempestivita( t-)s, untimeliness, < intempestivus, 
untimely: see intempestive.] Untimeliness; un- 
seasonableness. 
Our moral books tell us of a vice which they call i<u- 
pin, intempestivity ; an indiscretion by which unwise and 
unexperienced men see not what bents times, persons, 
occasions. Hales, Sermon at Eton, p. 4. 
in tempo (in tem'po). [It. : in, in ; tempo, time : 
see tempo.] In music, in strict rnythm. 
intenablet (in-ten'a-bl), a. [= P. untenable; 
as*- 3 + tenable.~\ 1. Not tenable; untenable; 
not to be held or maintained. 
His Lordship's proposition may be expressed in plainer 
terms, "That the more the world has advanced In real 
knowledge, the more it has discovered of the intertable, 
pretensions of the Gospel." Warburton, Works, IX. xiii. 
2. Incapable of containing. Also intenible. 
I know I love in vain, strive against hope ; 
Yet, in this captious and intenible sieve, 
I still pour in the waters of my love, 
And lack not to lose still. 
Shak., All's Well, L 3, 208. 
intend (in-tend'), v. [Early mod. E. also en- 
tend; < ME. intenden, entenden, < OF. entendre, F. 
entendre = Pr. entendre = Sp. Pg. entender = 
It. intendere, intend, < L. intendere, stretch out, 
extend, aim at, stretch toward, direct toward, 
turn to, purpose, intend, ML. also attend, < in, 
in, upon, to, + tendere, stretch : see tend 1 . Cf. 
attend, contend, extend, etc.] I. trans. If. To 
stretch forth or out; extend or distend. 
With sharpe intended sting so rude him smott 
That to the earth him drove, as stricken dead. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 38. 
Unless an age too late, or cold 
Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. 
Milton, P. L., ix. 45. 
By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale. 
2. To direct; turn; fix in a course or tendency. 
[Archaic.] 
Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tharsus 
Intend my travel. Shak., Pericles, i. 2, 116. 
Guide him to Fairy-land who now intends 
That way his flight. Crabbe, Works, I. 193. 
For example, a man explores the basis of civil govern- 
ment. Let him intend his mind without respite, without 
rest, in one direction. Emerson, Intellect. 
Our forefathers, by intending their minds to realities, 
have established a harmony of thought with external na- 
ture which is a pre-established harmony in our nature. 
Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 11. 
3f. To fix the attention upon ; attend to ; su- 
perintend. 
There were Virgins kept which intended nothing but to 
weaue, and spinne, and dye clothes, for their Idolatrous 
seruices. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 882. 
Herodicus ... did nothing all his life long but intend 
his health. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 270. 
I pray you intend your game, sir ; let me alone. 
B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v. 3. 
Intend at home, 
While here shall be our home, what best may ease 
The present misery. Milton, P. L., ii. 457. 
4. To fix the mind upon, as something to be 
done or brought about ; have in mind or pur- 
pose; design: often used with the infinitive: 
as, I intend, to write ; no deception was intended. 
Whatsoeuer mischiefe they entend to practise against a 
man, they keepe it wonderfully secrete. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 55. 
When he intends any warres, he must first have leave 
of the Great Turke. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, 1. 38. 
Sir John North delivered me one lately from your Lord- 
ship, and I send my humble Thanks for the Venison you 
intend me. Howell, Letters, I. iv. 21. 
For why should men ever intend to repent, if they did 
not think it necessary? Stillingfleet, Sermons, II. Hi. 
3134 
5. To design to signify; mean to be under- 
stood; have reference to. 
The words . . . sounded so as she could not imagine 
what they might intend. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
By internal war we intend movements more serious and 
lasting than sedition. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 136. 
6f. To pretend; make believe; simulate. 
Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio. 
Shak., Much Ado, ii. 2, 35. 
Ay, and amid this hurly I intend 
That all is done in reverend care of her. 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. 1, 206. 
7f. To look for; expect. 
I that alle trouthe in yow entende. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1649. 
8f. To intensify; increase. 
The magnified quality of this star [Siriusl conceived to 
cause or intend the heat of this season. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg, Err., iv. 13. 
II. intrans. If. To stretch forward; extend; 
move; proceed. 
When your mayster intendeth to bedward, see that you 
haue Fyre and Candell suffycyent. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. 
He intended homewards. He by this 
Needs must have gain'd the city. 
Chapman, Revenge for Honour, iii. 1. 
Now breaks, or now directs, intending lines. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 63. 
2f. To attend ; pay attention. 
Ech to his owen nedes gan entende. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 424. 
A man that Intendyth to mynstrels, shalle soone be wed- 
dyd to poverte, & his sonne shalle hyte derisione. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 31. 
They were the first that entended to the obseruation of 
nature and her works. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 4. 
3. To have intention; be inclined or disposed. 
[Rare.] 
If you intend so friendly as you say, send hence your 
armes. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 210. 
To intend fort, to design to go to. 
I shall make no stay here, but intend for some of the 
electoral courts. Richardson. 
intendablet (in-ten'da-bl), a. [< intend + 
-able.] Attentive. Hattiwell. 
intendance (in-ten'dans), n. [< ME. enten- 
daunce, < OF. (and F.)' intendance = Sp. Pg. in- 
tendencia = It. intendenza; as intend + -once.] 
1. Intendancy; superintendence; direction; 
business management ; specifically, in France, 
official superintending authority, or a body of 
official intendants, especially of the army. 
Probably in the history of modern organisations there 
is no greater instance of stupendous and abject failure 
than the French Intendance. 
Arch. Forbee, Experiences of War, 1871, II. 338. 
As to improving the arrangements . . . for making the 
staff and the intendance [in France, 1867] more efficient, 
not a thought was bestowed on these important matters. 
Edinburgh Rev., CLXIV. 303. 
2t. Attention; care; guidance. 
But the maide whom wee would haue specially good 
requireth all intendance both of father and mother. 
Pities, Instruction of a Christian Woman, i. 1. 
intendancy (in-ten'dan-si), n. [Formerly also 
intendency; < intendan(t) + -cy. Cf. intendance.] 
The office or employment of an intendant ; the 
district, duties, direction, etc., committed to the 
charge of an intendant. 
Hence we went to see Dr. Gibbs, a famous poet and 
countryman of ours, who had some intendency in an Hos- 
pital built on the Via Triumphalis. 
Evelyn, Diary, Jan. 25, 1645. 
Promoted to the intendancy of Hispaniola. 
Jefferson, Correspondence, I. 234. 
intendant (in-ten'dant), n. [Formerly also in- 
tendent; < F. intendant = Sp. Pg. It. intendente, a 
steward, surveyor, intendant, < L. intenden(t-)s, 
ppr. of intendere, exert oneself, endeavor, in- 
tend, ML. also attend: see intend. Intendant, 
after the F., is the common form, while inten- 
dent, after the L., is the reg. form in the com- 
pound superintendent. Cf . dependant, dependent.] 
One who has the oversight, direction, or manage- 
ment of some public business; a superinten- 
dent; a manager: used as a title of many pub- 
lic officers in France and other European coun- 
tries: as, an intendant of marine; an intendant 
of finance. 
Subordinate to him are four other intendents. 
Evelyn, State of France, Lewis XIV. 
Nearchus, who commanded Alexander's fleet, and One- 
sicrates, his intendant general of marine, have both left 
relations of the Indies. Artmthnot. 
Yon young gallant 
Your miserly intendant and dense noble 
All all suspected me. Byron, Werner, iii. 1. 
A French medical officer of the navy who was going back 
to his duties as Intendant of Pondicherry. 
W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 6. 
intenerate 
Specifically (a) In Canadian law, the second officer in 
Canada under the French rule, having civil and maritime 
jurisdiction, (b) In Mexican lau; the chief officer of the 
treasury or of the district; a high functionary having 
administrative and some judicial power: in this use also 
written, as Spanish, intendente. 
intended (in-ten'ded), p. a. and n. I. p. a. Pur- 
posed; to be, or to be done, according to an 
agreement or design : as, an intended entertain- 
ment; her intended husband. 
II. n. An intended husband or wife : with a 
possessive pronoun preceding. [Colloq.] 
If it were not that I might appear to disparage her in- 
tended, ... I would add that to me she seems to be 
throwing herself away. Dickens, David Copperfleld, xxiL 
intendedly (in-ten'ded-li), adv. With purpose 
or intention ; intentionally. 
To add one passage more of him, which is intendedly 
related for his credit. Strype, Abp. Parker. 
intendencyt, intendentt, . See intendancy, 
intendant. 
intender 1 (in-ten'der), . One who intends. 
intender 2 t (in-ten'der), v. t. Same as entender. 
Night opes the noblest scenes, and sheds an awe 
Which gives those venerable scenes full weight, 
And deep reception in th' intendered heart. 
Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 731. 
intendimentt (in-ten'di-ment), n. [< ML. in- 
tendimentum, attention: see intendment.'] At- 
tention; patient hearing; consideration; un- 
derstanding; knowledge; intention. 
Into the woods thenceforth in haste shee went, 
To seeke for hearbes that mote him remedy ; 
For shee of herbes had great intendiment. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. v. 32. 
The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, 
And merveild at his straunge intendiment. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 5. 
intending (in-ten'ding),j>. a. Designing or pur- 
posing to be or become. 
If the intending entomologist should content himself 
with merely learning a string of names by rote, he must 
expect to find his lesson a hard and repulsive one. 
J. G. Wood, Insects at Home, p. 13. 
And what to intending emigrants will prove very useful. 
Contemporary Rev., L. 303. 
The construction of a roof for an equatorial room (tech- 
nically called the "dome," whatever may be its precise 
form) is a great crux to the intending builder of an ob- 
servatory. Nature, XXXIII. 57. 
intendment (in-tend'ment), n. [Early mod. E. 
also entendment; < ME. entendement, understand- 
ing, sense, < OF. (also F.) entendement = Pr. 
entendement, entendemen, intendemen = Sp. en- 
tendimiento = Pg. entendimento = It. intendi- 
mento, < ML. intendimentum, attention, intent, 
purpose, understanding, < L. intendere, intend, 
ML. also attend: see ^intend. Cf. intendiment.^ 
If. Understanding; intelligence. 
Mannes hedde imaginen ne can, 
Ne entendement considere, ne tonge telle 
The cruel peynes of this sorwf ul man. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1696. 
By corruption of this our flesh, man's reason and entend- 
ment . . . were both overwhelmed. 
Sir T. Wilson (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 464). 
2f. Intention; design; purpose. 
We do not mean the coursing snatchers only, 
But fear the main intendment of the Scot, 
Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 2, 144. 
See the privacy of this room, how sweetly it offers itself 
to our retired intendmenti. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 
Therefore put in act your resolute intendments. 
Deltker and Webster, Sir Thomas Wyatt. 
3. True intention or meaning: specifically used 
of a person or a law, or of any legal instru- 
ment in the intendment of law, in the judgment of 
law ; according to the legal view ; by a presumption of law. 
The time of their absence is in the intendment of law 
bestowed to the Church's great advantage and benefit 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 81. 
intenebratet (in-ten'e-brat), v. t. [Cf. It. in- 
tenebrare, darken ; < L. in, in, + tenebrare, dark- 
en, < tenebra?, darkness : see tenebrte.] To dark- 
en; obscure; make shadowy. 
A pretty conjecture intenebrated by antiquity. 
Sir B. Wotton, Reliquiee, p. 261. 
intenerate '(in-ten'e-rat), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
inti iterated, ppr. inienerating. [< ML. *intene- 
ratus, pp. of *intenerare (> It. intenerare), make 
tender, < L. in, in, + tener, tender : see tender.'] 
To make tender; soften. [Bare.] 
So have I seen the little pnrls of a stream sweat through 
the bottom of a bank and intenerate the stubborn pavement 
till it hath made it fit for the impression of a child's foot. 
Jer. Taylor, Sermons (1651), p. 204. 
Thus she (Nature] contrives to intenerate the granite 
and feldspar. Emerson, Compensation. 
inteneratet (in-ten'e-rat), a. [< ML. "inteiie- 
nttus, pp.: see the verb.] Made tender; ten- 
der; soft; intenerated. 
