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To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

The office or employment of an intendant.

One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.

Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper.

Intentionally. [R.] Milton.

See Intendant, n. [Obs.]

One who intends. Feltham.

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.

Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.

To aim amiss. [Obs.]

the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort. The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature. Bacon.

The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow.

The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.

Overseeing; superintending.

A superintendent. [R.]

Superintendent. [R.]

The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.