intent 
intentus, m., purpose, intent, ML. also a stretch- 
ing out, < L. intendere, pp. intentus, stretch out, 
intend: see intend. Cf. intent, a.] 1. That 
which is intended; purpose; aim; design; in- 
tention; meaning. 
Ne no thing wist thai what it ment 
That thai honurd with gude entent. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 88. 
I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me? 
Acts x. 29. 
He [my guide] too went readily in with me ; it may be 
not knowing my intent was to buy. 
Dumpier, Voyages, II. i. 91. 
But Dante recked not of the wine ; 
Whether the women stayed or went, 
His visage held one stern intent. 
D. Q. Rossetti, Dante at Verona. 
2. In law: (a) Personal intention; the state 
of mind in respect of intelligent volition ; the 
voluntary purposing of an act: often distin- 
guishable from the motive which led to the for- 
mation of the intent. See criminal intent, be- 
low, (o) The tendency imputable by law to an 
act; the constructive purpose of an action, for 
which the doer may be responsible, although 
the actual intent was not wrongful : as when a 
conveyance is said to be intended to defraud 
creditors, because, although it may have been 
without actual dishonest intention, it neces- 
sarily has that tendency. 3f. Notion; idea; 
thought; opinion. 
To myn entent ther is best abydeng, 
I wote he will be gladde of your corayng. 
Qenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 629. 
4f. Attention; heed. 
Awake, dougter myne. 
And to my talkyng take entent. 
Early Eng. Poems, p. 141. 
The lesse lyght all-way to the nyght sail take entent. 
York Plays, p. 11. 
Criminal Intent, the intent to do the criminal act or to 
omit the duty, if the law makes the act or omission an of- 
fense, irrespective of whether the person knew of the law, 
and in many cases irrespective of whether he knew the 
facts which bring the act or omission within the law, and 
irrespective of motive. Thus, for example, if a person, 
whether from the motive of pleasure in the noise, or anger 
at a cat, discharges a firearm from his window in a city 
with reckless disregard of human life, and kills a person 
who is unknown to him, within range, the criminal intent 
is the intelligent purpose to discharge the gun in a highly 
dangerous manner, as distinguished alike from the motive, 
from any purpose to violate law, and from any purpose to 
kill a human being. If he was insane in the legal sense, 
or if the discharge was accidental, there was no criminal 
intent ; otherwise the intent was criminal, although he 
had an innocent motive, and was ignorant of the law and 
of the existence of the bystander. Specific Intent, ac- 
tual intent. To all Intents and purposes, in every re- 
spect ; in all applications or senses ; in a looser use, prac- 
tically ; substantially, but not literally. 
To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes 
is for the present as blind as he that cannot. 
South, Sermons. 
intentt, v. t. [< L. intentare, stretch out to- 
ward, freq. of intendere, stretch out: see in- 
tend.'] To accuse ; charge. Nares. 
For of some former she had now made known 
They were her errors, whilst she intented Browne. 
Verses prefixed to Browne's Pastorals. 
intentationt (iu-ten-ta'shon), n. [= It. inten- 
tazione, < L. intentatio(n-)'j a stretching out to- 
ward, < intentare, stretch out toward: see in- 
tent.'] The act of intending, or the result of 
such an act; intention. Bp. Sail, Ahab and 
Naboth. 
intentio (in-ten'shi-6), . [L., a stretching out: 
see intention.'] In anc. music, the process or 
_act of passing from a lower to a higher pitch. 
intention (in-ten'shon), n. [< ME. intencion, 
entencioun, < OF. intencion, entencion, intention, 
P. intention = Pr. entencio, entensio = Sp. in- 
tencion = Pg. intenySo = It. intenzione, < L. in- 
tentio(n-), a stretching out, exertion, attention, 
design, purpose, intention, < intendere, pp. in- 
few tes, stretch out, intend: see intend.} 1. 
Direction of the mind; attention; hence, un- 
common exertion of the intellectual faculties ; 
closeness of application; fixedness of atten- 
tion; earnestness. [Archaic.] 
O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy 
intention, that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch 
me up like a burning-glass ! Shak., M. W. of W., i. 3, 73. 
I suffer for their guilt now, and my soule 
(Like one that lookes on ill-affected eyes) 
Is hurt with mere intention on their follies. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 5. 
When the mind with great earnestness, and of choice 
fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will 
not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas 
it is that we call intention or study. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xix. 1. 
It [reading well] requires a training such as the athletes 
underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life 
to this object. Thoreau, Waldeu, p. HO. 
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2. The act of intending or purposing. 
It is evident that "good intention" is of the very es- 
sence of an act of duty, and not "good results" nor "plea- 
surable feelings " felt in its performance. 
Mivart, Nature and Thought, p. 160. 
3. That which is intended, purposed, or meant ; 
that for which a thing is made, designed, or 
done; intent; purpose; aim; meaning; desire: 
often in the plural, especially (in colloquial 
use) with regard to marriage. 
The chief intention of pillars, in Egyptian buildings, be- 
ing to support a weighty covering, it was necessary they 
should be very strong. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 216. 
Therefore have they ever been the instruments of great 
designs, yet seldom understood the true intention of any. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
So little intention had we of shooting bears that we had 
not brought rifle or even gun with us. 
He unbosomed himself with the simplicity of a rustic 
lover called upon by an anxious parent to explain his in- 
tentions. 0. W. Holmes, Essays, p. 109. 
4f. A straining or putting forth of action; ex- 
ertion; intension. 
The operations of agents admit of intention and remis- 
sion. Locke. 
5. In surg., and figuratively in other uses, nat- 
ural effort or exertion : course of operation ; pro- 
cess : as, the wound healed by first or by sec- 
ond intention. See below. 
The third intention is deligation, or retaining the parts 
so joined together. Wiseman, Surgery. 
You discern at a glance that it is only what was natural 
to him and reached by the first intention. 
Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 45. 
6f. A mental effort or exertion; notion; con- 
ception; opinion. 
A monke, by our Lordes gras, 
Off Maillers it is myn entettcion. 
Bom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.\ L 2643. 
7f. Understanding; attention; consideration. 
Thi passioun & thi mercy 
We take to oure entensioun. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X p. 21. 
8. In law, intent ; the fixing of the mind upon 
the act and thinking of it as of one which will 
be performed when the time comes. StepJten; 
Harris. It depends on a joint exercise of the 
will and the understanding. 9. In scholastic 
logic, a general concept of the mind. [This use of 
the word (Latin intentio), first found in a translation from 
Avicenna, was common throughout the thirteenth, four- 
teenth, and fifteenth centuries. Aquinas says that the in- 
telligible species or first apprehension is the beginning, 
while the intention is the end of the process of thought.] 
Declaration of Intention. See declaration. First 
Second intention, in logic, a general conception obtain- 
ed by reflection and abstraction applied to first intentions 
as objects. Thus, the concepts man, animal, and thing are 
first intentions ; but if we reflect that man is a species of 
animal, and animal a species of organism, we see there is 
no reason why this process should not be continued until 
we have a concept embracing every other object or being 
(ens) ; and this concept, not obtained by direct abstraction 
from the species offered by the imagination, but by think- 
ing about words or concepts, is a second intention. In 
particular, the concepts of a genus, of a species, of a spe- 
cific difference, of a property, and of an accident were 
considered to be derived from the consideration of par- 
ticular genera, species, differences, properties, and acci- 
dents, and so to be second intentions par excellence. At 
the present day such terms as being, nothing, identity, 
negation, and the like are called terms of second inten- 
tion when it is desired to emphasize the fact that they are 
obtained by abstraction from the logical relations of other 
terms. Special Intention, the celebration of the eu- 
charist for a specific object Lee's Glossary. To heal 
by first intention, in surg., to cicatrize without sup- 
puration, as a wound. To heal by second intention, 
in surg., to unite after suppuration, as the borders of a 
wound. 
intentional (in-ten'shon-al), a. and n. [= Sp. 
Pg. intentional = It. in'ienzionale = F. intention- 
nel; as intention + -al.~\ I. a. 1. Done with 
intention, design, or purpose; intended; de- 
signed. 
inter- 
standing, and other things whose essence only consists in 
their apparition. Burgersdiciux, tr. by a Gentleman. 
intentionality (in-ten-sho-nal'i-ti), n. [< in- 
tentional + -4ty.~\ The character or fact of be- 
ing intentional ; designedness. 
To render the analysis here given of the possible states 
of the mind in point of intentionality absolutely complete, 
it must be pushed to such a farther degree of minuteness, 
as to some eyes will be apt to appear trifling. 
Bentham, Introd. to Principles of Morals, viii. 
intentionally (in-ten'shon-al-i), adv. In an 
intentional manner ; with intention or design ; 
of purpose ; not casually. 
intentioned (in-ten'shond), a. [< intention + 
-erf 2 .] Having intentions or designs, of a kind 
specified by some qualifying term : as, well-in- 
tentioned ; ill-intentioned. 
intentivet (in-ten'tiv), a. [< ME. ententif, < 
OF. ententif = Pr. ententiu= It. intentivo. < LL. 
intentivus, intensive (said of adverbs), < L. in- 
tendere, pp. intentus, stretch out: see intend. 
Cf. intensive.] 1. Having an intent or pur- 
pose; intent; attentive. 
Who is so trewe and eke so ententyf 
To kepe him, syk and hool, as is his make? 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 44. 
While Vortimer was thus intentive for his Countrey's 
Liberty, Rowena the former King's Wife, being Daughter 
to Hengist, was as intentive to bring it into Servitude. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 4. 
But her most intentive care was how to unite England 
and Scotland in a solid friendship. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 367. 
Objects 
Worthy their serious and intentive eyes. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, Ind. 
2. Of or pertaining to attention. 
Our souls for want of spirits cannot attend exactly to so 
many intentive operations. Burton, Anat. of MeL, p. 256. 
intentivelyt (in-ten'tiv-li), adv. [< ME. en- 
tentifly; < intentive + -fy 2 .] Attentively; in- 
tently. 
And for his grete bewte the maydenys be-hilde hym 
often entenlifly. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 608. 
Whereof by parcels she had something heard, 
But not intentively. Shak., Othello, i. 3, 155. 
intentivenesst (in-ten'tiv-nes), n. Closeness 
of attention or application of mind; attentive- 
ness. W. Montague, Devoute Essays, ii. 224. 
intently (in-tent'li), adv. In an intent man- 
ner; with close attention or application; with 
eagerness or earnestness ; fixedly. 
And he be-heilde hym ententely that he loked on noon 
other, and after that he be-heilde his felowes, that were 
stille and koy, that seiden not o worde, but be-heilde hym 
that spake. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 818. 
intentness (in-tent'nes), n. The state of be- 
ing intent; close or earnest attention or ap- 
plication. 
inter 1 (in-ter'), v . t. ; pret. and pp. interred, ppr. 
interring. [Formerly enter; < ME. enteren, < 
OF. enterrer, F. enterrer = Pr. Sp. Pg. enterrar 
= It. interrare,<. ML. interrare, put in the earth, 
bury, < L. in, in, + terra, earth: see terra.] 1. 
To place in the earth and cover with it. [Rare 
in this general sense.] 
The best way is to inter them as you furrow pease. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
Specifically 2. To bury; inhume; place in a 
grave, or, by extension, in a tomb of any kind. 
The princes entred in to the town gladde and ioyfull, 
and dide entere the deed corps. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 603. 
To be enterit in a towmbe, as a triet qwene, 
And laid by hir legis, that the lond aght. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L 11568. 
The evil that men do lives after them ; 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 
Shak., J. C., iii. 2, 81. 
inter 2 (in'ter), prep. [L., in the midst, be- 
tween, during, among (in comp. also under, 
service. Rogers. 
2. In metaph., pertaining to an appearance, 
phenomenon, or representation in the mind : 
phenomenal; representational; apparent.-inl 
tentional abstraction, being, etc. See the nouns"- 
Intentional enst. &a.measintentional,n.-~ Intentional 
existence, existence as an immediate object of conscious- 
:is .o 
lo a true bein 
opposed bein 
n, as genus, 
used in some Latin phrases occurring 
in En S lish b , ooks . s in inter nos (between or 
amon g ourselves), inter arma silent leges (laws 
' Fe N ? among arms that is, in time of 
war )' ete v and very common as a prefix. See 
Mter-. 
inter 3 t, V. A Middle English form of enter*. 
-a 
entre-, re lyinter-,< OF .entre-,mter-,< F.entre-, 
entre- inter- Tt enter in- 
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