Intend

From Middle English entend, â€œdirect (oneâ€™s) attention towardsâ€, from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere.

Full definition of intend

To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.

1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 1, The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
1935, George Goodchild, Death on the Centre Court Chapter 1, She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
2013-06-07, Ed Pilkington, ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, In his submission to the UN, Christof Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 139:Dotage, fatuity, or folly...is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others ....

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