Word Meanings - INTENDMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument. (more info) 1. Charge; oversight. Ford. 2. Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.
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- DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - CHARGEANT
Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - LEGALITY
1. The state or quality of being letter of the law. - CHARGEABLE
1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving - 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. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - CHARGE
1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or - CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - LEGALIZE
To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal. - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - INTENTIONAL
Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental. - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - DESIGNFUL
Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow. - 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 - DESIGNEDLY
By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - MISCHARGE
To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - ENCHARGE
To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. - FOREDESIGN
To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne. - OVERCHARGE
1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4. - UNCHARGE
1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak.