intentionn.
/ɪnˈtɛnʃn/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɛn(t)ʃən/ I. General senses.† 1. The action of straining or directing the mind or attention to something; mental application or effort; attention, intent observation or regard; endeavour. Obsolete (but cf. 7b).† 2. The action or faculty of understanding; way of understanding (something); the notion one has of anything. Also, the mind or mental faculties generally; cf. intent n. 4. Obsolete.† 3. The way in which anything is to be understood; meaning, significance, import. Obsolete or blending with 5.† 8. Intensification: = 3. Obsolete.† 9. Inclination, tendency. Obsolete.
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
c1400 Rom. Rose 4701 Now sette wel thyn entencioun, To here of love discripcioun.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxx. 99 Neuere to relesse þe soule fro intencion of heuenly þinges.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. iv. 12 Therfore he [God] gaf to hym [man] witte and reson to haue entencion to hym.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHviv Attencion or intencion for our purpose here, is onely the attendaunce, study & diligence, that man or woman gyueth to their dede.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. v. sig. C4v My Soule (Like one that lookes on ill affected eyes) Is hurt with meere Intention on their follies. View more context for this quotation
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. ii. 8 Which Petition the King refusing, he prest with that instance and intention..til at last he tendred the same upon the pomel of his saddle.
1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 589 Being advised by Phisitians..to break off the strong intention of his study, he rejected their counsell.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 111 When the Mind with great earnestness, and of a choice, fixes its view on any Idea..it is that we call Intention, or Study.
1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 54 Disease, caused perhaps by..deep Intention of Thought.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > [noun]
hearteOE
moodeOE
wita1000
intention1340
mindc1384
intentc1386
ingeny1477
thinker1835
box1908
the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]
i-witc888
anyitOE
witOE
thoughtOE
inwitc1305
intention1340
mindc1384
understandingc1384
intentc1386
intelligencec1390
intellecta1398
minda1398
understanda1400
intellectionc1449
ingeny1477
intellectivec1484
mind-sight1587
intellectual1598
notion1604
intelligency1663
mental1676
nous1678
grasp1683
thinker1835
Geist1871
noesis1881
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
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > of something
intention1340
cogitation1645
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4521 Þe Iewes and cristen men..Sal þan thurgh even entencion Assent in Crist als a religion.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 77 Resonable entencion, The which out of the soule groweth And the vertue fro vice knoweth.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxxiii. 164 I wylle answere after myn aduys and Intencion.
a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 271 I haue synnit in discimilit thochtis ioly, Vp to the hevin extollit in myn entencioun.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. IIIiv Ye the idyot, may haue..his entencion fully set to desyre the lyfe eternall.
ΘΚΠ
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
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclii For necessary & necessyte ben wordes of mokel entention.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 310 That from thence gathering the full intention of the conceit, wee might..rightly apprehend the whole argument.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. iii. 6 If we will beleive Galen..Whose Intention Rodeletius interprets to be, that the Fat doth only releive famished persons.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 276 The intention of the passage..is sufficiently clear.
1885 S. Cox Expos. 1st Ser. ii. 22 The story of every man has a religious intention and significance.]
4. The action of intending or purposing; volition which one is minded to carry out; purpose. †of intention, on purpose, intentionally (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [adverb]
willesOE
with one's willc1175
willes and waldesc1225
adviselya1325
wittinglya1340
wilfullyc1374
witting1377
a-purposea1382
of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382
wilfulc1381
willingly1402
of intention1430
knowingly1435
advisedlyc1449
deliberately1471
purpensely1472
purposely1495
prepensedly1496
purpensedly1496
purposedlya1540
proposely?1550
studiously1567
on (also upon) purpose1569
on set purpose1569
of industry1575
affectedly1582
premeditatelya1595
deliberatively1598
consultively1599
intentionallya1673
affectionally1603
by (also out of, on, upon) design1603
intentionately1609
industriouslya1616
perpensedly1624
intendedlya1641
unspontaneously1640
industrously1643
consultedly1645
consideringly1647
designedly1652
premeditatedly1653
wittily1653
intendingly1678
premeditatinglya1679
self-consciously1685
propensely1694
thinkingly1705
accidentally on purpose1711
affectionatelya1716
prepensely?1725
systematically1744
advertently1745
systemically1761
reflectively1775
purposefullya1854
meaningly1867
aimfully1870
purposively1878
designingly1879
proposedly1887
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
1430 J. Lydgate St. Margarete 381 Men supposyng..There was closed grete tresour and rychesse, Brak the vessel, of entencyoun.
c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 229 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 76 Of his synnis repentyng, as man of gud entencione.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. i. f. 6 We suld keip the commandis of God with ane rycht intencioun.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 264 There is not that disposition and good intention, which ought to be betwixt so neere a couple.
1645 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 166 Having it once in his intention to go to Bristol.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1752 I. 134 [At one time, Johnson said to Beauclerk] You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 59 Our actions are judged good or evil, according to our intention.
1887 T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. v Intention, as distinguished from motive, on the one side, and the action itself, on the other, may be defined as the volition immediately preceding the overt act.
5.
a. That which is intended or purposed; a purpose, design.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [noun]
willOE
thought?c1225
willing1340
intentionc1430
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxii. 153 It is wel..myn entencioun þat þou make me þer of collacioun.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 527 It wes his entencioune [1489 Adv. entencioun] Till put him in-to auenture.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 203 It is a saying among Divines, that Hell is full of good Intentions, and Meanings.
1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 118 It was not the Intention that the Ships should go higher up.
1771 J. Wesley Serm. ii. ii. §9 ‘Hell is paved’ saith one ‘with good intentions’.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 484 [Johnson:] Sir, Hell is paved with good intentions.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 116 Sir W. Blackstone thought the deed of uses sufficient evidence of the intention of the parties.
b. colloquial in plural. Purposes in respect of a proposal of marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > proposal of marriage > [noun] > purposes in respect of proposal
intention1813
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xciv. 6 [He] thanked him for his honourable intention.]
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. xi. 122 Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions at all, and..she did not mean to be unhappy about him. View more context for this quotation
1852 Punch 27 Mar. (Cartoon) Mr. Bull. Now, Sir, don't let us have any more Derby Dilly Dallying. What are your Intentions towards Miss Britannia?
1884 F. Marryat Under Lilies & Roses xxxiii ‘Why! I'm just about to ask you your intentions!’ ‘Don't! please! For I am married.’
6.
a. Ultimate purpose; the aim of an action; †that for which anything is intended (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
the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > purpose for which something intended
end1534
termination1576
ordination1607
intention1652
destinationa1656
c1410 T. Hoccleve Mother of God 52 Cryst of thee hath deyned for to take Flessh and eek blood for this entencioun Vp on a crois to die for our sake.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. iii To consydere and loke wel to what entention the yeft is gyuen.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. E8 To none other intension, than onele to begille them.
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iv. 48 It..serves as effectually..for most intensions that almost any Physick is prescribed for.
1774 T. Reid Brief Acct. Aristotle's Logic ii. §2, in Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man II. iii. 179 The intention of the categories..is, to muster every object under ten heads.
1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 201 One thing to estimate the intention and sincerity of a movement, when it first stirred the hearts of men, and another thing to pass sentence upon it in the days of its degradation.
b. In literary criticism: the aim or design which a critic detects in a writer's work.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > perceived intention in writer's work
intention1946
1946 Wimsatt & Beardsley in Sewanee Rev. LIV. 469 Intention has obvious affinities for the author's attitude toward his work, the way he felt, what made him write.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 97/1 Intention, in Mr. Wimsatt's use of the word, does not mean what it means in Dr. Richards's distinction between sense, tone, feeling, and intention... It means what we might have reason to think that the author thought he was up to.
7. † a. Stretching, tension: = intension n. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun] > making long or longer > drawing out to greater length > forcibly or tightly
strainingc1400
extension1526
intention1580
stretch1600
intension1603
distensiona1640
distractionc1720
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 83 As the Musitians tune their strings, who..either by intention or remission, frame them to a pleasant consent.
1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 123 So doe we vnbend bowes..lest continuall intention should boow the bowe, or breake the string.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 57 By intention of speech a vein opening in my Lungs caused such a flux of blood.
b. Straining, bending, forcible application or direction (of the mind, eye, thoughts, etc.). (Akin to 1, but with more of the notion of tension as in 7.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence
yernfulnesseOE
swinkfulnessOE
diligencec1374
applying?c1430
diligencya1513
diligentness1530
sedulity1542
application1543
assiduity1605
sedulousness1622
navity1623
assiduousness1637
intention1638
apply1681
perdiligence1694
painstakingness1917
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 206 We shall doe well to breath our selves now and then..by unbending the intention of our thoughts.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 30 Not being able to endure so much seriousness and intention of minde.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 326 The toil, and labour, and racking intention of the brain.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 262 It required a different intention of the eye, in the same locality, to see different plants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in intensity
intention1603
intension1610
exasperation1633
exaltation1729
intensation1826
intensification1864
richening1881
hotting-up1940
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 69 Morall vertue..tempereth the remission and intention..of the passions.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 276 Brightnesse may bee sayd to bee nothing else but an intention of Light.
1739 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. at Typus, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. The Order of Fevers consisting of Intention and Remission.
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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
1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 35 in Jewell House If it continew longe in a pewter sawcer, it hath an intention towardes ceruse.
II. Specific uses.† 14. Rhetoric. Intensification of force or meaning; the use of a word to such an end. (Latin intentio, Aul. Gell.; Greek ἐπίτασις, Dion. Hal.) Obsolete.
10. Surgery and Medicine.
a. An aim or purpose in a healing process; hence, a plan or method of treatment. [ < medieval Latin curationis intentio, translating ὁ τῆς ἰάσεως σκοπός Galen (ed. Kühn I. 385).] archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > plan or method of treatment
intentionc1400
method?a1425
scope1583
cure1842
pathy1842
modality1932
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 18 Al þe entencioun of a surgian, how diuers þat it be, it is on [of] þre maners, þe first is vndoynge of þat, þat is hool, þe secunde to hele þat, þat is broke, þe .iij. is remeuynge of þat, þat is to myche.
?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Sj In the cure of colde apostemes be iij intencyons. The fyrste is to egall the mater antecedent. The seconde is the conioynt mater. And ye thyrde is to correct ye accydentes.
1710 T. Fuller (title) Pharmacopœia extemporanea: or, a body of prescripts..accommodated to most intentions of cure.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Intention, in Physic, is that Judgment or particular Method of Cure, which a Physician forms to himself from a due Examination of Symptoms.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 485 Some of the indications of the disease, however, have given rise to a much bolder intention.
b. spec. in first intention, the healing of a lesion or fracture by the immediate re-union of the severed parts, without granulation; second intention, the healing of a wound by granulation after suppuration.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > uniting fractures, wounds, etc.
consolidationc1400
consoudingc1400
conglutination?1541
first intention1543
glutination1607
consolidating1654
synthesis1706
symphysis1767
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 83v/1 Solution of continuitie in the flesh..maye be restored, by the waye of the fyrst intention.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 130 The first intention belongs to incised wounds, and is performed, by bringing their lips, as much as possible, into contact..The second intention is accomplished, by promoting digestion, and regeneration of the loss of substance.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 125 The first [mode] is by adhesion without granulation; this Galen termed re-union by the first intention; the second is re-union by granulation..re-union by the seond intention.
1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 308 The wound healed ‘by the first intention’.
11. Logic. The direction or application of the mind to an object; a conception formed by directing the mind to some object; a general concept. first intentions, primary conceptions of things, formed by the first or direct application of the mind to the things themselves; e.g. the concepts of a tree, an oak. second intentions, secondary conceptions formed by the application of thought to first intentions in their relations to each other; e.g. the concepts of genus, species, variety, property, accident, difference, identity.The introduction of these terms is due to the early Latin translation of Avicenna, in which the Arabic maʿqūlāt ‘perceptions, notions’, plural of maʿqūl ‘what is perceived by the intellect, intelligible, known’, is rendered by intentiones. Thus tr. Avicenna Metaph. I, 2 (Prantl II. 321) Subjectum vero logicæ, sicut scisti, sunt intentiones intellectæ secundo [al-maʿqūlāt al-þāniyah], quæ apponuntur intentionibus primo intellectis [al-maʿqūlāt al-ūlāy], secundum quod per eas pervenitur de cognito ad incognitum. Hence in Albertus Magnus (1193–1280) Metaph. I; I, 1 (opposed to ed. Jammy, Lugd. 1651, III. 3/1) Scientiæ logicæ non considerant ens et partem entis aliquam, sed intentiones secundas circa res per sermonem positas, per quas viæ habentur veniendi de noto ad ignotum. Pacius ( Aristot. Organ., 1584) identifies intentio with notio ‘notion’: ‘prima notio seu prima intentio’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > knowledge or perception
intention?1545
intellection1628
intuition1652
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [noun] > logical concept > primary or secondary conceptions
intention?1545
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [noun] > logical concept > general concept
notiona1398
generalty1442
intention?1545
concept1561
conceit1576
conceptus1643
conception1701
?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. Pref. sig. aiijv Subtiltees, seconde intencyons, intrinsecall moodes.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Liiiv Our newe Logiciens..were neuer yet able to fynde out the seconde intentyons: in so muche that none of them all coulde euer see man hymselfe in commen, as they call hym.
1638 F. Rous Heavenly Acad. ii. 15 For things of the second intention, to discerne them, we ascend above Sense unto Reason, and see them with our Understandings.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 9 Not attaining the..second intention of the words. View more context for this quotation
1852 H. L. Mansel Artis Logicæ Rudim. of Aldrich (ed. 2) 20 First Intentions, as conceptions of things, are predicable of the individuals conceived under them..Second Intentions are not so predicable..When Genus is said to be predicable of Species, it is not meant that we can predicate the one second Intention of the other, so as to say, ‘Species is Genus’; but that the first intention ‘animal’ is predicable of the first intention ‘man’; the relation of the one to the other being expressed by the second intentions ‘genus’ and ‘species’. For this reason, Logic was said [by Avicenna] to treat of second intentions applied to first.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic v. 112.
12. Theology.
a. One of the three things necessary, according to the Schoolmen, to the effectual administration and validity of a Sacrament, the two others being matter and form: see quots.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > [noun] > three things making effectual
matterc1350
form1597
intention1690
1690 T. Shadewell Amorous Bigotte v. (ad fin.) I vill pronounce de Words of de maarriage without intention, and den it is no marriage.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 103 The doctrine of the Schools is, That a Sacrament requires Matter, Form, and Intention.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 103 I am at a loss to know what the Intention of a Sacrament is, unless it be what the Church requires to be done therein, according to the Council of Florence.
1842–71 W. F. Hook Church Dict. 397 The following is the eleventh canon of the Council of Trent:—‘If any shall say that there is not required in the ministers while they perform and confer the sacraments, at least the intention of doing what the Church does, let him be accursed’.
1869 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. (1879) viii. 267 Popes like Alexander VIII. may tell us..that a minister invalidates a rite by withdrawing his interior intention from it,..soberer schoolmen..limit the required intention to nothing more at the least than a virtual intention to do as the Church does.
b. Roman Catholic Church special or particular intention, a special purpose or end for which mass is celebrated, prayers are offered up, etc. as the spiritual welfare of some person, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > purpose of
special or particular intention1849
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > for special purpose
special or particular intention1849
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. i. 76 Like ourselves, the Anglo-Saxons often celebrated mass for a particular intention.
1886 Echo 30 Nov. In the Communion Service a ‘special intention’ was made known by the introduction of words implying that the ‘sacrifice was received in memory’ of the dead.
1890 L. Dobrée Blanche's Bapt. in Stories Sacram. 20 I gave you all my intentions at Mass that morning, and said the Te Deum for you.
1895 Catholic Mag. July 184 Our Mother General..gives us the intention for the next day's Communion.
1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 608/1 The text of the Mass itself, with its special intention in capitals.
13. Roman Law. (See quot. 1880.)
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > setting forth of plaintiff's case > written > clause in which pursuer embodies demand
intention1880
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 289 The clauses of a formula are these,—the demonstration, the intention, the adjudication, and the condemnation... The intention is the clause in which the pursuer embodies his demand; for example, thus: ‘Should it appear that Numerius Negidius ought to give ten thousand sesterces to Aulus Agerius.’
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > hyperbole > intensification of meaning
intention1678
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Intention,..in Rhetorick it is the repetition of the same word in a contrary sense, as Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.
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intention movement n. [translating German intentionsbewegung (O. Heinroth)] a movement or action on the part of an animal which itself performs no function except to reveal or signal that a further movement or action may follow or is contemplated.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > that serves no purpose
intention movement1950
stereotype1966
1910 O. Heinroth in Jrnl. f. Ornith. LVIII. 122 Eine Modifikation des eigentlichen Locktones, wie sie kurz vor dem Auffliegen hervorgebracht und dann mit den oben beschriebenen Intentionsbewegungen verbunden wird, ist ein langes und fein ausklingendes ‘Hu’.]
1950 K. Z. Lorenz in Symposia Soc. Exper. Biol. IV. 242 We know of two phyletically distinct ways, by which non-social, mechanically effective endogenous activities may develop into social releasers: in one case the so-called ‘intention movement’ (Intentionsbewegung, Heinroth), in the other the so-called ‘displacement activities’.
1950 K. Z. Lorenz in Symposia Soc. Exper. Biol. IV. 243 Intention movements..are..very reliable indicators for the present ‘mood’ of an animal.
1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xvii. 153 A bird may rapidly change from pecking to the intention-movement of brooding.
1961 A. J. Berger Bird Study v. 136 The first intention movement preceding walking or hopping often is a ‘bow’.
intention tremor n. a tremor which is manifested when a voluntary action is performed.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > shaking or trembling
ague fit1528
ague1532
grooving1637
the tremblesa1803
shivering fit1816
trepidation1822
shake1838
trembling fit1856
fibrillation1882
intention tremor1887
rest tremor1890
shivering attack1899
flutter1910
1887 H. F. Vickery & P. C. Knapp tr. A. von Strümpell Textbk. Med. 593 The tremor in multiple sclerosis comes on only with intended movements, ‘intention tremor’.
1969 Times 8 Feb. 4/1 All but one suffered from defects in their nervous systems. The commonest of these seems to have been intention tremors, which are tremors occurring when a voluntary movement is made.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† intentionv.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
To have an intention.
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1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Intentionare, to intention.
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