(intendere)

  • 91prendre — Prendre, Accipere, Acceptare, Capere, Captare, Excipere, Prendere, Prehendere, Comprehendere, Percipere, Sumere, Desumere. Prendre et appliquer à soy, Asciscere. Prendre en sa main quelque chose, Inuolare. Prendre en cachette, Surripere. On n en… …

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  • 92regarder — Regarder, Aspicere, Cernere, Tueri, Intueri, Respicere, Videre, Capessere aliquid oculis, vel vsurpare. Souvent regarder, Respectare. N oser regarder quelqu un, Vultum alicui summittere, Budaeus ex Sueton. N oser regarder le soleil entre deux… …

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  • 93soing — Soing, Cura, Accuratio, Diligentia, Negotium. Soing et diligence de faire quelque chose, Attentio, Intentio. Soing et grande diligence, Sedulitas. Soing trop affeté, Sedulitas arguta. Le soing qu on a tous les jours, Cura quotidiana, vel insidens …

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  • 94tascher — et s efforcer de faire quelque chose, Moliri, Conari, Niti, Anniti, Eniti, Conniti. Tascher de prendre avec les mains, Manibus appetere. Tascher de tout son pouvoir, Contendere. Tasche de tout ton pouvoir et de toute ta force, Summis opibus… …

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  • 95tendre — Tendre, ou estendre, Tendere, Contendere, Intendere. Tendre au devant, Praepandere, Obtendere, Praetendere. Tendre sa main au devant et taster, Praetentare. Tendre le voile au devant, Obducere velum. Tendre son giron, Expandere sinum. Le tout… …

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  • 96intend — [14] The Latin verb intendere (a compound formed from the prefix in ‘towards’ and tendere ‘stretch’) had a variety of metaphorical meanings, some of which have come through into English. Principal among them was ‘form a plan or purpose’, an… …

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  • 97intent — [in tent′; ] for n., also [ in′tent΄] adj. [L intentus, pp. of intendere: see INTEND] 1. firmly directed or fixed; earnest; intense [an intent look] 2. a) having the mind or attention firmly directed or fixed; engrossed [intent on his studies] …

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  • 98Entend — En*tend , v. i. [F. entendre, fr. L. intendere. See {Intend}.] To attend to; to apply one s self to. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 99Intendant — In*tend ant, n. [F. intendant, fr. L. intendere to direct (one s thoughts) to a thing. See {Intend}.] One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance …

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  • 100Intense — In*tense , a. [L. intensus stretched, tight, p. p. of intendere to stretch: cf. F. intense. See {Intend}, and cf. {Intent}, and cf. {Intent}, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as,… …

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