INTEND', verb transitive [Latin intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from teneo; Gr. to stretch.]

1. To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend.

By this the lungs are intended or remitted.

[This literal sense is now uncommon.]

2. To mean; to design; to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. [This is now the usual sense.]

For they intended evil against thee. Psalms 21:11.

3. To regard; to fix the mind on; to attend; to take care of.

Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Phillip.

[This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.]

4. To enforce; to make intense.