Word Meanings - INTENDIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to INTENDIMENT)

• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• UNDERSTAND
  understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge
• UNDERSTANDING
  Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• CONSIDERATION
  The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. Bouvier. Note: Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for
• UNDERSTANDER
  One who understands, or knows by experience. Dryden.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• UNDERSTANDABLE
  Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.
• KNOWLEDGE
  The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
• ATTENTION
  1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• NONATTENTION
  Inattention.
• FOREKNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
• INUNDERSTANDING
  Void of understanding. Bp. Pearson.
• DISACKNOWLEDGE
  To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• SELF-KNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
• INTERKNOWLEDGE
  Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. Bacon.