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fign.—Out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint 
you withal; that either you might flay him from his in¬ 
tendment, or brook fuch difgrace well as he lhall run into. 
Shakefpeare. 
Intendment of Law, the underflanding, inten¬ 
tion, and true meaning, of law. Lord Coke fays, the 
judges ought to judge according to the common intend¬ 
ment of law- i Injl. 78. Intendment fhall fometimes fup- 
ply that which is not fully expreffed or apparent; and, 
when a thing is doubtful, in fome cafes intendment may 
make it out; alfo many things fhall be intended after 
verdiCt, in a caufe, to make a good judgment; but in¬ 
tendment cannot fupply the want of certainty in a charge 
jn an indictment for any crime. See. 5 Rep. 121. Some¬ 
times a thing is neceffarily intended by what precedes or 
follows it; and, where an indifferent conltruCtion may 
have two intendments, the rule is to take it moll ftrongly 
againft the plaintiff. Show. 162. Though, if a plaintiff 
declares that the defendant is bound to him by obliga¬ 
tion, it fhall be intended that the obligation was fealed 
and delivered. If one is bound in a bond, and in the fol- 
vend' of the bond it is not expreffed unto whom the mo¬ 
ney fhall be paid, or if faid to the obligor; the law will 
intend it is to be paid to the obligee; and, where no time 
is limited for payment of the money, it fhall be intended 
to be prefently paid. 2 Lil. Abr. 71. The intent of par¬ 
ties in deeds, contracts, &c. is much regarded by the law ; 
though it fhall not take place againft the direCt rules of 
law; the law doth not in conveyances of eftates admit 
them regularly to pafs by intendment and application ; 
but in devifes of lands they are allowed, with due reflric- 
fions. Vaugh. 261, 262. Where feifin of an inheritance 
is once alleged, it fhall be intended to continue till the 
contrary is fliown. Jones, 181. A court pleaded gene¬ 
rally to be held fecund ' confuetud ’ fhall be intended held ac¬ 
cording to the common law. Goldjb. in. By intend¬ 
ment.pf law, eyery parfon, or reCtor of a church, is fup- 
pofed to be refident in his benefice, unlels the contrary 
be proved. Co Lit. 78. b. One part of a manor by com¬ 
mon intendment fhall not be of another nature than the 
reft. Co. Lit. 73. b. When one word may have a double 
intendment, one according to the law, and another againft 
the law, that intendment fhall be taken which is accord¬ 
ing to law; and this by a reafonable intendment. 3 Bulf. 
306. Yclv. 50. See further finder Implication, In¬ 
dictment, Deed, &c. 
Intendment of Crimes. In ancient times felonious 
attempts, intending the death of another, were adjudged 
felony; for the will was taken for the faCt. BraEl. 1 Edw. 
ill. But at this day the law does not generally punifli 
intendments to do ill, if the intent be not executed; ex¬ 
cept in cafe of treafon, where Intention proved by cir- 
cumftances fhall be punifhed as if put in execution. 3 Injl. 
soS. And if a perfon enter a houfe in the night, with 
intent to commit burglary, it is felony; and, by ftatute 
22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, malicioufly cutting off Or difabling 
atiy limb or member, with an intent to disfigure. Sec. is 
felony. Affault, with intent to commit robbery on the 
highway, is made felony punifhable by tranfportation. 
7 Geo. II. c. 21. Intention of force and violence makes 
riots criminal. 3 Injl. 9. Where men do evil, and fay 
they intend none ; or if the intention be only to beat, and 
they kill a perfon; they are to be punifhed for the crime 
done. Plowd. 345. If a man, entering a tavern, &c. com¬ 
mit a trefpafs, the law will judge that he originally in¬ 
tended it. 8 Rep. 14.7. See Homicide, Treason, See. 
To INTEN'ERATE, v. a. [in and tener , Lat.] To make 
tender; to foften: 
' Autumn vigour gives, 
Equal intenerating milky grain. Phillips. 
INTEN'ERATING, f. The act of making tender. 
INTENERA'TlON, f. The aCt of foftening or making 
tender.—In living creatures the nobleft ule of nourilh- 
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ment is for the prolongation of life, reftoration of fome 
degree of youth, and inleneration of the parts. Bacon. 
INTEN'IBLE, adj. [in and tenible .] That cannot 
hold. Not in ufe: 
I know I love in vain, Arrive againft hope : 
Yet in this captious and intenible fieve, 
I Hill pour in the waters of my love. Shakefpeare. 
INTENSE, adj. [ intenfus , Lat.] Raifed to a high de¬ 
gree; ffrained ; forced; not flight; not lax.—To. obferve 
the effeCts of a diftillation, profecuted with fo inlenfe and 
unulual degree of heat, we ventured to come near. Boyle. 
Sublime or low, unbended or intenfe, 
The found is ftill a comment to the fenfe. Rofcommon. 
Vehement; ardent.—Hebraifms warm and animate out 
language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and 
intenfe phrafes. Addifon. —Kept on the ft retch ; anxioufly 
attentive: 
But in difparity 
The one intenfe ; the other (fill remifs, 
Cannot well fuit with either, but foon prove 
Tedious alike. Milton. 
INTENSELY, adv. To a great degree ; not flightly ; 
not remifsly.—If an Englilhman confiders our world, how 
intenfely it is heated, he cannot luppofe that it will cool 
again. Addifon. 
INTENSENESS, f The ftate of being enforced in a 
high degree ; force; contrariety to laxity or remifiion.— 
The water of fprings and rivers, tiiat luftains a diminu¬ 
tion from the heat above, being evaporated more or lefs, 
in proportion to the greater or lefier interfenefs of heat. 
Woodward, 
INTEN'SION, f. [Fr. intenjio, Lat.] The aCt of forcing 
or ftraining any thing ; contrariety to remiflion or relaxa¬ 
tion.—Faith differs from hope in the exteniion of itsobjeCl, 
and in the intcnficn of degree. JTaylor. 
INTENSITY, f. Intenfenefs; vehemency; ftretch 
exertion. Excels.—The numberengaged in crimes,inltead 
of turning them into laudable aits, only augment's the 
quantity and the intenfity of the guilt. Burke. —In phyfics; 
the degree or rate of the power or energy of any quality ; 
as heat, cold, Sec. The intenfity of qualities, as gravity,' 
light, heat, Sec. vary in the reciprocal ratio of the fquarei 
of the diftances from the centre of the radiating quality.' 
INTENSIVE, adj. [from intenfe .] Stretched or in- 
crealed with refpeCt to itfelf; that which may admit in-' 
creafe of degree.— As his perfection is infinitely greater’ 
than the perfection of a man, foitis infinitely greater than 
the perfection of an angel ; and, were it not infinitely' 
greater than the perfection of an angel, it could not be 
infinitely greater than the perfection of a man, becaufe the 
intevfive diltance between the perfection of an angel and 1 
of a man is but finite. Hale .— Intent; unremitted. — Tired' 
with that affiduous attendance and intenfve circumfpec-' 
tion, which a long fortune did require, he was not unwil¬ 
ling to beftow upon anotherfome part of the pains. IVotton,. 
INTENSIVELY, adv. By iiicreafe of degree. — God- 
and the good angels are more free than we are, that is, 
intenfively m the degree of freedom; but not extenfively in' 
the latitude of the objeCt, according to a liberty of exer- 
cife, but not of fpecification. Bramkall againfi Hobbes. 
INTEN'T, adj, [ intenius , Lat.] Anxioufly diligent ;• 
fixed with clofe application : formerly with to. —Di(trac¬ 
tions in England made molt men intent to their own fafety% 
King Charles. —Commonly with on. —When we ufe but 
thole means which God hath laid before us, it is a good 
fign that we are rather intent upon God’s glory than our 
own conveniqncy. Taylor. 
Of aftion eager, and intent on thought, 
The chiefs your honourable danger lought. Dryden. 
INTEN'T, f. [from intend.] A defign ; a purpofe; a 
drift; a view formed; meaning.—Although the Scripture 
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