have a mind to

present singular third person has a mind to · participle present having a mind to · participle past had a mind to · past had a mind to

1. To intend to (do something).

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   Various places in Greece […] claimed the honour of having been associated in a particular manner with Deucalion and the great flood. Among the claimants, as might have been expected, were the Athenians, who, pluming themselves on the vast antiquity from which they had inhabited the land of Attica, had no mind to be left out in the cold when it came to the question of Deucalion and the deluge.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 151