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▪ I. intender|ɪnˈtɛndə(r)|
Also 6 in-, entendour.
[f. intend v. + -er1. With the form entendour cf. OF. entendeour, -eor (13th c. in Godef.), mod.F. entendeur understander, hearer.]
1. One who intends or purposes.
1513More Rich. III (1883) 22 Well perceyuyng that the intendours [1568 Grafton entendours] of suche a purpose wolde rather haue hadde theyr harneys on theyr backes. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xxxii. 56, I will rather bless them, as instruments than condemn them, as not intenders. 1660Plea Ministers Sequest. 8 He cannot deny us to be pretenders (and intenders too) to Godliness. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 148 An intender of Publique charity.
†2. A claimant, pretender. Obs.
1640Yorke Union Hon. 185 Henry of Spaine, son of King John the Intender.
▪ II. intender
var. of entender v., to make tender. |