intentionaladj.n.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 316/2 Intencyonall belongyng to the intent, intencionel.

1602 in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 247 Where wee see faith and dutie onely intentionall in origine.

1695 Dissuasive from Cursing 25 in R. Boyle Free Disc. Customary Swearing These Intentional Sins, for being ineffectual against others, divest not the being criminal in themselves.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxvi. 186 Her heart overflows with sentiments of gratitude on every common obligation and even on but intentional ones.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 142 The second will never operated, it was only intentional.

1946 Wimsatt & Beardsley in Sewanee Rev. LIV. 482 The question of ‘allusiveness’, for example,..is certainly one where a false judgement is likely to involve the intentional fallacy.

1948 W. K. Wimsatt & M. C. Beardsley in Poetry Dec. 155 Affective fallacy…a confusion between the poem and its results (what it is and what it does)... The affective fallacy is coupled with the intentional fallacy.., the former being a confusion between the poem and its results, the latter a confusion between the poem and its origins. Examples of the affective fallacy range from Plato's feeding and watering of the passions, Aristotle's counter-theory of catharsis, and the Longinian ‘transport’ of the audience.

1954 W. K. Wimsatt Verbal Icon i. 6 It is not so much a historical statement as a definition to say that the intentional fallacy is a romantic one.

1958 Listener 9 Oct. 578/2 A studied defence of what has been labelled—and dismissed—as the ‘intentional fallacy’.

a1676 [implied in: M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iv. 155 Some things are found out casually or accidentally; some things intentionally. (at intentionally adv. c)].

a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xviii. 388 The glory of God, the great End..which every intelligent Being is bound to consult by a direct and intentional Service.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. i. 14 There is too another Alteration..which..is equally wanting; and that is with respect to the Epithet, Intentional or Voluntary.

1824 S. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 41 We accuse nobody of intentional misrepresentation.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 42 Considering this as an intentional insult.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. v. 306 An intentional suppression of facts.

1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (ii. 5) 91 Man is the only intentional cultivator.

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 452 The thought of man is a spirituall or intentionall motion and action, and not a substantiall thing.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems 277 Let him..with uncessant industry persist Th' intentionall species to mash and bray In marble morter.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 15 It is evident, that Empedocles did not suppose Sensations to be made by intentional Species or Qualities.

1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 79 Colours, Sounds, Sapors, Time..are Intentional things, things that, as such, have only an esse Objectivum, an esse Cognitum, as the School~men phrase it.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. vii. 344 Some philosophers talk of..intentional species, and of their successive generating and spawning each other, after their first emission from the object, throughout the several points of the medium.

1878 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. (ed. 3) 59 (note) Both the Jussive and Cohortative are comprehended by Ewald under the name Voluntative; for Cohortative Böttcher prefers to use the term Intentional.

1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 4 The sight is the subject of Forms without a Body; which are called, Intentionalls.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. iii. 5 To a true Being..are oppos'd..3dly. Appearances, or as they commonly say, Intentionals, as the Rain-bow, Colours appearing, Species's and Spectres of the Senses and Understanding, and other things whose Essence only consists in their Apparition.

1902 C. Hague tr. F. C. Brentano Origin Knowl. Right & Wrong 12 The common feature of everything psychical consists in what has been called by a very unfortunate and ambiguous term, consciousness; i.e. in a subject-attitude; in what has been termed an intentional relation to something which, though perhaps not real, is none the less an inner object of perception.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas ii. ii. 122 The intentional object..first becomes an apprehended object through a distinctively ‘objectifying’ turn of thought.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas ii. ii. 133 Apart from perception, we find a variety of intentional experiences which essentially exclude the real immanence of their intentional objects.

1957 R. M. Chisholm Perceiving xi. 169 The phenomena most clearly illustrating the concept of ‘intentional existence’ are what are sometimes called psychological attitudes; for example, desiring, hoping, wishing, seeking, believing, and assuming.

1976 A. R. Lacey Dict. Philos. 99 Since Brentano, who brought these issues to light and revived some medieval terminology, objects like Cicero, Apollo and unicorns, in these contexts, are called intentional objects, and are sometimes said to have intentional inexistence (existence in the mind, or as an object of the mind's activity).

1986 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics Autumn 394 Beliefs about fictitious persons are ‘second order’ beliefs about ‘intentional objects’.