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单词 intendance
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intendancen.1

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s entendaunce, 1600s intendants.
Etymology: < Old French entendance (12th cent. in Godefroy) attention, etc., < entendre , entendant , to intend v.
Obsolete.
Application of the mind; attention.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [noun]
intendance1390
intentionc1400
intensiona1619
absorption1640
immersion1647
preoccupation1788
concentration1823
engrossment1838
self-condensation1841
enchainment1849
submergence1872
immersal1901
absorbency1974
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 359 All freshe I sigh hem springe and daunce, And do to love her entendaunce.
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. i. sig. C.ij The mayde, whom we wolde haue specially good, requireth al intendaunce both of father and mother.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 10 All the wordes of thys holy seruyce, oughte to be sayde or songe, wyth entendaunce therto.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 325 When a Hawke hath bene recouered of some great greefe by good keeping and intendance.
1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 95 It were long to recite all their deuout intendants, all their strict obseruances.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

intendancen.2

/ɪnˈtɛndəns/
Etymology: < French intendance (1595 in Godefroy Compl.), < intendant intendant n.: see -ance suffix.
a. The function of an intendant; superintendence, direction; intendancy; spec. a department of the French public service, or the officials conducting it, as the war commissariat, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > superintendent > position of
superintendentship1567
intendancy1598
intendance1740
intendantship1892
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > French government department
intendance1880
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xvi. 330 Which province..was the only one we car'd to trust to his particular intendance.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV IV. 291 The real intendance of public buildings was held by the famous Mansard.
1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 250 They stipulated..that the Roman Catholic schools should be exclusively under the intendance of inspectors professing that faith.
1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. v. 95 The French Intendance and the English Commissariat must meet as best they might the huge accession of wants.
b. The official quarters or office of an intendant.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > intendant > office or quarters of
intendance1895
1895 G. Parker in Atlantic Monthly (U.S.) Mar. 301 There was yet an hour before I was to go to the intendance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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