intendmentn.

Brit.

/ɪnˈtɛn(d)m(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈtɛn(d)mənt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s entend(e)ment. β. 1500s–1600s intende-, 1500s– intendment.

Etymology: < French entendement understanding, formerly also, meaning, interpretation, view, opinion, end, intention (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < entendre : see intend v., and compare intendiment n.

†1. The faculty or action of understanding. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun]

witOE

understandinga1050

intention1340

intendmentc1374

knowledgea1387

intelligencec1390

conceitc1405

intellect?a1475

perceiverancea1500

perceiverationa1500

receipta1500

intendiment1528

reach1542

apprehension1570

toucha1586

understandingnessa1628

apprehensivenessa1639

ingenuity1651

comprehensiona1662

intelligibility1661

intelligency1663

uptake1816

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 1668 (1696) Mannes hed ymagynen ne kan Nentendement considere..This cruwel peynes of þis sorwful man.

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 475 More clere entendement Nas never yit y-sent.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. i. 74 His werkes ben infynyte..so that none entendement ne may them vnderstande.

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1963 Mi maister Chaucer, flour of eloquence, Mirour of fructuous entendement.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique A iij By corruption of this our fleshe mans reason and entendement were both overwhelmed.

1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 19 The intendement of man worketh nothing in the thing conceiued.

†2. Way of understanding (something); conception or interpretation of a matter; view. In later use passing into 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun]

interpretation1387

intendment1390

sense1584

construction1592

reading1624

turn1688

construal1960

take1977

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 105 He saith in his entendement, That yet there is an element Above the foure.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 77 After thentendement of somme men.

1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. sig. aiii Suche plentie of writers..could not by any entendement so fully consent vpon any vntruth.

1630 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 258 To take away a Mans substance..is..to common intendment all one as to take away the very Life itself.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 328 The whole Congregation is, oftentimes, in common entendment, conformable, and well setled in all matters of Doctrine.

3. Meaning conveyed or intended; signification; import. Now rare or Obsolete. double entendement, ‘double meaning’, the equivocal use of a word or phrase which has two senses. Cf. double entendre n., and see double adj.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > use of

equivocationc1380

double entendement1390

equivocasc1400

double entendre1673

equivoque1809

mealiness1912

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > [noun]

sentence?c1225

intent1303

tenora1387

intendment1390

strengthc1390

porta1393

meaningc1395

process1395

continencea1398

purposec1400

substance1415

purport1422

matterc1450

storyc1450

containing1477

contenu1477

retinue1484

fecka1500

content1513

drift1526

intention1532

vein1543

importing1548

scope1549

importance1552

course1553

force1555

sense?1556

file1560

intelliment?1562

proporta1578

preport1583

import1588

importment1602

carriage1604

morala1616

significancy1641

amount1678

purview1688

sentiment1713

capacity1720

spirit1742

message1828

thrust1968

messaging1977

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 179 A tale of greet entendement I thenke telle for thi sake.

c1399 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 13 The pes..schal with wordes pleine, Withouten eny double entendement Be treted.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxii Fye on doble entendement.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. ii. 5 Words of large intendment and signification.

1767 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 235 Studious to expound Their dark intendment.

1879 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 12 344 A phrase of sinister and odious intendment.

4. Law. The construction put upon anything by the common law; the sense in which the law understands a thing; true meaning as fixed by law. common intendment, customary or reasonable interpretation, as determined by the law. (Cf. 2.)

ΘΚΠ

society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > construction put on something by the law

intendment1528

intent1528

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xlviii^v The ryght of fee symple is in obeyaunce, that is to say all onely in the remembraunce entendement and consyderacyon of the lawe.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. vi. 103 The Ordinarie (which is the Bishoppe by common intendment).

1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 354 A man may be a Knight that hath no freehold: So cannot an Earle or Lord by common entendement.

1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 295 All the possessions..which had been always either in express terms, or by common intendment of law understood to be exempted.

1780 M. Madan Thelyphthora I. 165 With respect to the moral intendment of those laws.

1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 250 Every intendment ought to be made in favour of long established usage.

1897 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. 155 Britain still claimed that they were, in strict intendment of law, British subjects.

†5.

a. The act or fact of intending; will, purpose, intent; that which is intended, an intention; a design, project. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose

willeOE

highOE

thoughtOE

intent?c1225

achesounc1230

attenta1250

couragec1320

devicec1320

minda1325

studya1382

understanding1382

suggestionc1390

meaninga1393

i-minda1400

minta1400

tent1399

castc1400

ettlingc1400

affecta1425

advicec1425

intention1430

purposec1430

proposea1450

intendment1450

supposing?c1450

pretensionc1456

intellectionc1460

zeal1492

hest?a1513

minting?a1513

institute?1520

intendingc1525

mindfulness1530

cogitationa1538

fordrift1549

forecast1549

designing1566

tention1587

levela1591

intendiment1595

design1597

suppose1597

aim1598

regarda1616

idea1617

contemplationa1631

speculation1631

way of thinking1650

designation1658

tend1663

would1753

predetermination1764

will to art1920

1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. (E.E.T.S.) 35 He owith to be a man of good feith and trewe, and wijs to know thyn entendement.

c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. ccxi. ii [He] was full lyke It to haue destroyed by theyr entendment.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 144 We..feare the mayne entendement [1623 intendment] of the Scot.

c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1714) II. 261 The Spaniards had Intelligence of his Intendments.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Hebrew x. 4 The intendment of our Apostle in these Words, is to prove, that [etc.].

1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. iii. 165 To state the motives and intendments, In constitutional amendments.

†b. The purpose, design, or object of anything. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object

willeOE

errand?c1225

purposec1300

endc1305

emprisec1330

intentc1340

use1340

conclusionc1374

studya1382

pointc1385

causec1386

gamea1393

term?c1400

businessc1405

finec1405

intentionc1410

object?a1425

obtent?a1475

drift1526

intend1526

respect1528

flight1530

finality?1541

stop1551

scope1559

butt?1571

bent1579

aiming point1587

pursuitc1592

aim1595

devotion1597

meaning1605

maina1610

attempt1610

design1615

purport1616

terminusa1617

intendment1635

pretence1649

ettle1790

big (also great) idea1846

objective1878

objective1882

the name of the game1910

the object of the exercise1958

thrust1968

1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 139 The Law, whose true intendment alwayes is to make all men willing to doe to others, as they desire should bee done unto them.

1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 112 Friendship and Converse were among the Primitive Intendments of Marriage.

1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 414 It was not the intendment of the Act of Supremacy, to invest any new powers in the Crown.

†6. Tendency, inclination; also, the general character or nature (of a thing). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun]

kinda1200

disposingc1380

disposition1393

aptc1400

hieldc1400

remotiona1425

inclination?a1439

incliningc1450

taste1477

intendment1509

benta1535

swing1538

approclivity1546

aptness1548

swinge1548

drift1549

set1567

addiction1570

disposedness1583

swaya1586

leaning1587

intention1594

inflection1597

inclinableness1608

appetite1626

vogue1626

tendency1628

tendence1632

aptitude1633

gravitation1644

propension1644

biasing1645

conducement1646

flexure1652

propendency1660

tend1663

vergencya1665

pend1674

to have a way of1748

polarity1767

appetency1802

drive1885

overleaning1896

1509 S. Hawes Joyfull Medit. xi To auaryce he had entendement.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. D2 The epistles..be commonly without addition at al, either of praise or mislike, or any other intendment.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 56 The Sunne hardeneth clay..from the nature of the clay, not intendment in the Sunne.

†7. A charge, an office of supervision. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [noun] > superintendence

oversighta1400

surviewc1421

supervisionc1475

supervisorship1482

survey1535

surveying1538

superintendence1559

superintendency1579

superinspection1617

supervising1634

intendment1638

supravision1642

surintendency1650

supervisal1652

supervisure1690

intendancy1727

surintendence1744

supervisance1816

overseering1854

overseeing1890

1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 2 Well he merited Th' Intendments o're the Gallies at Ligorne, Made grand collector of the customes there.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	intendment
释义	intendmentn. Brit. /ɪnˈtɛn(d)m(ə)nt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɛn(d)mənt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s entend(e)ment. β. 1500s–1600s intende-, 1500s– intendment. Etymology: < French entendement understanding, formerly also, meaning, interpretation, view, opinion, end, intention (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < entendre : see intend v., and compare intendiment n. †1. The faculty or action of understanding. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] witOE understandinga1050 intention1340 intendmentc1374 knowledgea1387 intelligencec1390 conceitc1405 intellect?a1475 perceiverancea1500 perceiverationa1500 receipta1500 intendiment1528 reach1542 apprehension1570 toucha1586 understandingnessa1628 apprehensivenessa1639 ingenuity1651 comprehensiona1662 intelligibility1661 intelligency1663 uptake1816 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 1668 (1696) Mannes hed ymagynen ne kan Nentendement considere..This cruwel peynes of þis sorwful man. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 475 More clere entendement Nas never yit y-sent. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. i. 74 His werkes ben infynyte..so that none entendement ne may them vnderstande. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1963 Mi maister Chaucer, flour of eloquence, Mirour of fructuous entendement. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique A iij By corruption of this our fleshe mans reason and entendement were both overwhelmed. 1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 19 The intendement of man worketh nothing in the thing conceiued. †2. Way of understanding (something); conception or interpretation of a matter; view. In later use passing into 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] interpretation1387 intendment1390 sense1584 construction1592 reading1624 turn1688 construal1960 take1977 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 105 He saith in his entendement, That yet there is an element Above the foure. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 77 After thentendement of somme men. 1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. sig. aiii Suche plentie of writers..could not by any entendement so fully consent vpon any vntruth. 1630 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 258 To take away a Mans substance..is..to common intendment all one as to take away the very Life itself. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 328 The whole Congregation is, oftentimes, in common entendment, conformable, and well setled in all matters of Doctrine. 3. Meaning conveyed or intended; signification; import. Now rare or Obsolete. double entendement, ‘double meaning’, the equivocal use of a word or phrase which has two senses. Cf. double entendre n., and see double adj.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > use of equivocationc1380 double entendement1390 equivocasc1400 double entendre1673 equivoque1809 mealiness1912 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > [noun] sentence?c1225 intent1303 tenora1387 intendment1390 strengthc1390 porta1393 meaningc1395 process1395 continencea1398 purposec1400 substance1415 purport1422 matterc1450 storyc1450 containing1477 contenu1477 retinue1484 fecka1500 content1513 drift1526 intention1532 vein1543 importing1548 scope1549 importance1552 course1553 force1555 sense?1556 file1560 intelliment?1562 proporta1578 preport1583 import1588 importment1602 carriage1604 morala1616 significancy1641 amount1678 purview1688 sentiment1713 capacity1720 spirit1742 message1828 thrust1968 messaging1977 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 179 A tale of greet entendement I thenke telle for thi sake. c1399 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 13 The pes..schal with wordes pleine, Withouten eny double entendement Be treted. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxii Fye on doble entendement. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. ii. 5 Words of large intendment and signification. 1767 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 235 Studious to expound Their dark intendment. 1879 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 12 344 A phrase of sinister and odious intendment. 4. Law. The construction put upon anything by the common law; the sense in which the law understands a thing; true meaning as fixed by law. common intendment, customary or reasonable interpretation, as determined by the law. (Cf. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > construction put on something by the law intendment1528 intent1528 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xlviii^v The ryght of fee symple is in obeyaunce, that is to say all onely in the remembraunce entendement and consyderacyon of the lawe. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. vi. 103 The Ordinarie (which is the Bishoppe by common intendment). 1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 354 A man may be a Knight that hath no freehold: So cannot an Earle or Lord by common entendement. 1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 295 All the possessions..which had been always either in express terms, or by common intendment of law understood to be exempted. 1780 M. Madan Thelyphthora I. 165 With respect to the moral intendment of those laws. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 250 Every intendment ought to be made in favour of long established usage. 1897 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. 155 Britain still claimed that they were, in strict intendment of law, British subjects. †5. a. The act or fact of intending; will, purpose, intent; that which is intended, an intention; a design, project. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose willeOE highOE thoughtOE intent?c1225 achesounc1230 attenta1250 couragec1320 devicec1320 minda1325 studya1382 understanding1382 suggestionc1390 meaninga1393 i-minda1400 minta1400 tent1399 castc1400 ettlingc1400 affecta1425 advicec1425 intention1430 purposec1430 proposea1450 intendment1450 supposing?c1450 pretensionc1456 intellectionc1460 zeal1492 hest?a1513 minting?a1513 institute?1520 intendingc1525 mindfulness1530 cogitationa1538 fordrift1549 forecast1549 designing1566 tention1587 levela1591 intendiment1595 design1597 suppose1597 aim1598 regarda1616 idea1617 contemplationa1631 speculation1631 view1634 way of thinking1650 designation1658 tend1663 would1753 predetermination1764 will to art1920 1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. (E.E.T.S.) 35 He owith to be a man of good feith and trewe, and wijs to know thyn entendement. c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. ccxi. ii [He] was full lyke It to haue destroyed by theyr entendment. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 144 We..feare the mayne entendement [1623 intendment] of the Scot. c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1714) II. 261 The Spaniards had Intelligence of his Intendments. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Hebrew x. 4 The intendment of our Apostle in these Words, is to prove, that [etc.]. 1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. iii. 165 To state the motives and intendments, In constitutional amendments. †b. The purpose, design, or object of anything. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object willeOE errand?c1225 purposec1300 endc1305 emprisec1330 intentc1340 use1340 conclusionc1374 studya1382 pointc1385 causec1386 gamea1393 term?c1400 businessc1405 finec1405 intentionc1410 object?a1425 obtent?a1475 drift1526 intend1526 respect1528 flight1530 finality?1541 stop1551 scope1559 butt?1571 bent1579 aiming point1587 pursuitc1592 aim1595 devotion1597 meaning1605 maina1610 attempt1610 design1615 purport1616 terminusa1617 intendment1635 pretence1649 ettle1790 big (also great) idea1846 objective1878 objective1882 the name of the game1910 the object of the exercise1958 thrust1968 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 139 The Law, whose true intendment alwayes is to make all men willing to doe to others, as they desire should bee done unto them. 1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 112 Friendship and Converse were among the Primitive Intendments of Marriage. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 414 It was not the intendment of the Act of Supremacy, to invest any new powers in the Crown. †6. Tendency, inclination; also, the general character or nature (of a thing). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] kinda1200 disposingc1380 disposition1393 aptc1400 hieldc1400 remotiona1425 inclination?a1439 incliningc1450 taste1477 intendment1509 benta1535 swing1538 approclivity1546 aptness1548 swinge1548 drift1549 set1567 addiction1570 disposedness1583 swaya1586 leaning1587 intention1594 inflection1597 inclinableness1608 appetite1626 vogue1626 tendency1628 tendence1632 aptitude1633 gravitation1644 propension1644 biasing1645 conducement1646 flexure1652 propendency1660 tend1663 vergencya1665 pend1674 to have a way of1748 polarity1767 appetency1802 drive1885 overleaning1896 1509 S. Hawes Joyfull Medit. xi To auaryce he had entendement. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. D2 The epistles..be commonly without addition at al, either of praise or mislike, or any other intendment. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 56 The Sunne hardeneth clay..from the nature of the clay, not intendment in the Sunne. †7. A charge, an office of supervision. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > superintendence oversighta1400 surviewc1421 supervisionc1475 supervisorship1482 survey1535 surveying1538 superintendence1559 superintendency1579 superinspection1617 supervising1634 intendment1638 supravision1642 surintendency1650 supervisal1652 supervisure1690 intendancy1727 surintendence1744 supervisance1816 overseering1854 overseeing1890 1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 2 Well he merited Th' Intendments o're the Gallies at Ligorne, Made grand collector of the customes there. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1374
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