intendment
[noun]
Synonyms: intention, animus, design, intent, meaning, plan, purpose, acceptation, import, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, understanding

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

intendment noun. [ɪn'tɛndm(ǝ)nt] Also (earlier) entendment. LME.
[Old & mod. French entendement, from entendre: see INTEND, -MENT. Cf. INTENDIMENT.]
1. The faculty or action of understanding. LME-E17.

2. Way of understanding something; interpretation. LME-M17.

3. a. Meaning intended; signification, import. Now rare. LME.
Notes & Queries A phrase of sinister and odious intendment.
b. Law. The sense in which the law understands a thing. L16.
Times Doubts whether the use of such powers..was within the intendment of the legislation.

4. What a person aims at; purpose, intention. Also, the purpose of a thing. LME-E19.

5. Tendency, inclination. E16-E17.

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