intendiment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin intendimentum.
Noun
[edit]intendiment (countable and uncountable, plural intendiments)
- (obsolete) Understanding; careful consideration, attention.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- be nought hereat dismayd, / Till well ye wote by graue intendiment, / What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd […] .
- (obsolete) Intention, objective.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, / And merveild at his straunge intendiment.