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in⋅tend⋅ed

[in-ten-did]

–adjective

1.	purposed; designed; intentional: an intended snub.

2.	prospective: one's intended wife.

–noun

3.	Informal. the person one plans to marry; one's fiancé or fiancée.

Origin:
1570–80; intend + -ed ²

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in·tend   (ĭn-těnd') Pronunciation Key
v.   in·tend·ed, in·tend·ing, in·tends

v.   tr.

To have in mind; plan: We intend to go. They intend going. You intended that she go.
1. To design for a specific purpose.
2. To have in mind for a particular use.
To signify or mean.

v. intr.
To have a design or purpose in mind.

[Middle English entenden, from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere : in-, toward; see in-² + tendere, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

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in·tend·ed (ĭn-těn'dĭd) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Deliberate; intentional: "The only option is whether these will be purposeful, intended policies or whether they will be . . . concealed ones" (Daniel Patrick Moynihan).
Prospective; future: an intended trip abroad next month.

n. Informal
A person whom one intends to marry; a fiancé or fiancée: our daughter and her intended.

in·tend'ed·ly adv.

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intended
adjective
1.	resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult" [ant: unintended]
2.	future; betrothed; "his intended bride"

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Intended

In*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intended; p. pr. & vb. n. Intending.] [OE. entenden to be attentive, F. entendre, fr. L. intendre, intentum, and intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. in- in + tendere to stretch, stretch out. See Tend.]

1. To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.]

By this the lungs are intended or remitted. --Sir M. Hale.

2. To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]

When a bow is successively intended and remedied. --Cudworth.

3. To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

Magnetism may be intended and remitted. --Sir I. Newton.

4. To apply with energy.

Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction. --Emerson.

5. To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic] --Shak.

6. To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. [Obs.]

Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip. --Bacon.

My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying. --Fuller.

7. To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.

They intended evil against thee. --Ps. xxi. 11.

To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends. --Shak.

8. To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold. [Obs.]

Modesty was made When she was first intended. --Beau. & Fl.

9. To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. [Obs.]

Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio. --Shak.

Syn: To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.

Intended

In*tend"ed\, a. 1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] --Spenser.

2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.

They drew a curse from an intended good. --Cowper.

3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.