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of God be ftored with infinite variety of matter in all 
kinds, although it abound with all forts of laws, yet the 
principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the laws of duties 
fupernatural. Hooker. 
Of darknefs vifible fo much he lent, 
As half to thew, 'half veil, the deep intent. Dunciad. 
To all Intents. In ail fenfes, whatever be meant or 
defio-ned.—There is an incurable blindnefs caufed by a 
refolution not to fee ; and, to all intents and purpofes, l;e 
that will not open his eyes is for the prefent as he that 
cannot. Sovtk. _ 
Intent, or Intention, in law. The words of deeds 
lhall be confirmed according to the intent of the parties, 
and not othervvife; but the intent lhall bedeftroyed where 
it does not agree with the law. PL C. 160. b-, i G-z.b. In 
every agreement the intent is the chief thing that is to be 
confidered ; and if, by the aft of God, or other means 
not arifing from the party himfelf, the agreement cannot 
be performed according to the words, yet the party lhall 
perform it as near the intent as he may. PL C. 290. Com¬ 
mon ufage and cuftom frequently govern this matter, and 
direct the intention of the parties ; as, upon fale of a 
barrel of beer the barrel is not fold, but upon fale of a 
hogfhead of wine it is otherwise, Savil 124. Hardr. 3. The 
intention of a man is not always to be purfued in equity; 
as, if a man fettles a term in truft for one and his heirs, 
yet it lhall go to the executor. 1 Vcrn. 164. All deeds 
are but in nature of conlraRs, and the intent of the parties 
reduced into writing, and the intention is to be chiefly 
regarded. In an ait of parliament, the intention appear¬ 
ing in the preamble fliall controul the letter of the law. 
See Deed, Limitation, Statute, &c. 
INTENTABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
Unto, to try.] Incapable of being tempted. Cole. 
INTENTA'TION, /. [from in, Lat. on, and tento, to 
tempt.] A temptation ; a threatning. Cole. 
INTEN'TION, f. [Fr. from intentio, Lat.] Eagernefs of 
defire; clofenefs of attention ; deep thought: vehemence or 
ardour of mind.— Intention is when the mind with great 
earn^ftnefs, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, con¬ 
siders it on every fide, and will not be called off by the 
ordinary folicitation of other ideas. Locke. —Defign ; pur- 
p 0 f e ,—1 w ifh others the fame intention and greater fuc- 
ceifes. Temple. —Moft part of chronical diftempers proceed 
from laxity of the fibres; in which cafe the principal inten¬ 
tion is to reftore the tone of the folid part. Arbutknot. —The 
ftate of being intenfe or ftrained. This for diftinftion is 
more generally and more conveniently written intenjion .— 
The operations of agents admit of intention and remiffion ; 
but effences are not capable of fuch variation. Locke. 
INTEN'TIONAL, adj. [ intentionel, Fr. from intention.'] 
Defigned; done by defign.—The glory of God is the end 
which every intelligent being is bound to confult, by a 
direct and intentional fervice. Rogers. 
INTENTION AL'ITY, /. Something only in inten¬ 
tion.—Entity, intentionality, quiddity, and other inlignifi- 
cant words of the fchool. Hobbes. 
INTEN'TIONALLY, adv. By defign ; with fixed 
choice.—I find in mylelf that this inward principle doth 
exert many of its actions intentionally and purpofely. Hale. 
—In will, if not in aftion.—Whenever I am wilhing to 
write to you, I lhall conclude you are intentionally doing 
fo to me. Atterbury. 
INTEN'TIVE, adj. [from intent.] Diligently applied ; 
bufdy attentive.—Where the objeft is fine and accurate, 
it conduceth much to the fenfe intenlive and ereft. Bacon. 
INTEN'TIVELY, adv. With application ; clofely : 
Whereof by parcels fhe had fomething heard, 
But not intentively. Shakefpeare. 
INTENT'LY, adv. [from intent.] With clofe atten¬ 
tion ; with clofe application ; with eager defire.—If we 
infill pailionately, or fo intently, on the truth of our be¬ 
liefs, as not to proceed to as vigorous purfuit of all juft, 
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fober, and godly, living. Hammond. —The odd paintings of 
an Indian fereen may pleafe a little ; but when you fix 
your eye intently upon them, they appear lo difpropor- 
tioned, that they give a judicious eye pain. Atterbury. 
INLENT'NESS, f. The ftate of being intent; anxious 
application.—He is more difengaged from his intentmfs 011 
affairs. Swift. 
INTEN'UATE, adj. Sweet fmelling-, belonging to 
kind of juniper ; (lender. Chaucer. 
To INTER', v. a. [enterrer, Fr.] To cover under 
ground; to bury.—The allies, in an old record of the co¬ 
venant, are faid to have been interred between the very 
wall and the altar where they were taken up. AddiJ'on. 
The evil that men do lives after them ; 
The good is oft interred with their bones. Shakefpeare. 
To cover with earth.—The belt way is to inter them as 
you furrow peafe. Mortimer. 
IN'TER CA'NEM et LU'PUM, words formerly ufed 
in appeals to fignify the crime being done in the twilight. 
This in Herefordlhire they call the mockjkadow, or mock- 
Jhade, and in the north daylight's-gate ; others, betwixt hawk 
and buzzard. Cowell. 
IN'TERACT, f [inter, Lat. and aB.] Short employ¬ 
ment of time between doing other things which take up 
more..—It is only the interatts of other amufements. Chep- 
terfield. 
INTERAM'NA, in ancient geograph)', fo called from 
its fituation between rivers, or in an illand in the river 
Nar; a town of the Cifapennine Umbria. Interamnates the 
people ; furnamed Nartes by Pliny, to diftinguilh them 
from the people of other Interamnse. Now Terni, a town 
in Umbria. Lat.42,40. N. Ion. 13. 38. E. 
INTERAM'NA, a town and colony of the Volfci in 
Latium/on the confines of Samnium, at the confluence of 
the rivers Liris and Melpis; and for diftindtion-fake called 
Lirinas. The town is now in ruins. 
INTERAM'NA, or Interamnia Pr^tutianorum 
(Ptolemy ;) a town in the territory of the Pratutiani; a 
part of the Picenum. Now Teramo, in the Abruzzo of 
Naples. Lat. 42. 40. N. Ion. 15. E. 
INTERA'NIA, f. [Latin.] Thevifcera; the entrails. 
Phillips. 
INTER'CALAR, or Inter'calary, adj. [intercalate, 
Fr. intercalaris, Lat.] Inferted out of the common order 
to preferve the equation of time ; as. The twenty-ninth 
of February in a leap-year is an intercalary day. 
INTERCALAR'ITY, f. An intercalation; the bur¬ 
den of a fong. Cole. 
To INTERCALATE, v.a. To infert an extraordinary 
day. 
INTERCALA'TION, f. Infertion of days out of the 
ordinary reckoning.—In fixty-three years there may be 
loff almoft eighteen days, omitting the intercalation of one 
day every fourth year, allowed for this quadrant, or lix 
fupernumeraries. Brown. 
By this name they call the Jewifli cuftom of adding a 
thirteenth month to their lunar years at the end of every 
two or three years ; i. e. in the revolution of the cycle of 
nineteen years, there are feven years of thirteen months 
each, and the reft are only of twelvemonths. When an 
intercalary month is added, it is placed between February 
and March, and then there is a jirjl Adar; and another 
called Fir-Adar, or fecond Adar. The intercalation of the 
Jews is owing to all the lunar months not being fo long 
by twelve hours, or thereabouts, as the folar' months ; 
which at the end of three years makes twenty-nine or 
thirty days. See the article Chronology, vol. iv. p. 536. 
INTERCA'TIA, in ancient geography, a town of the 
Vaccasi in Hither Spain. Here Scipio ./Emiliamis flew a 
champion of the barbarians in Angle combat; and was the 
firft who mounted the wall in taking the town. It was 
fitualed to the fouth-eaff of Alturia; now faid to be in 
ruins. 
To INTERCEDE, v. n. [intercede, Fr. intcrccdo, Lat.] 
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