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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[LL.

intendimentum

. See

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Noun.

Attention; understanding; consideration.

intendiment ‎(plural intendiments)

(obsolete) Understanding; careful consideration, attention.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.12:
  be nought hereat dismayd, / Till well ye wote by graue intendiment, / What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd [...].
(obsolete) Intention, objective.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
  The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, / And merveild at his straunge intendiment.