intendiment

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noun

Understanding; careful consideration, attention.

OriginMedieval Latin intendimentum →
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Meanings

nounintendiment (countable and uncountable, plural intendiments)

plural intendiments

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableUnderstanding; careful consideration, attention.

    be nought hereat dismayd, / Till well ye wote by graue intendiment, / What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd […].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableIntention, objective.

    The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, / And merveild at his straunge intendiment.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Medieval Latinintendimentum
  2. Englishintendiment

From Medieval Latin intendimentum.

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Chicago

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