Word Meanings - FOREMEANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser.

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• INTENDENT
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• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• INTENDANT
  One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
• PREMEDITATION
  The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.
• INTENDER
  One who intends. Feltham.
• INTENDMENT
  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.
• INTENDANCY
  1. The office or employment of an intendant. 2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• PREMEDITATE
  To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery. With words premeditated thus he said. Dryden.
• PREMEDITATELY
  With premeditation. Burke.
• INTENDED
  1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. Spenser. 2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper. 3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
• INTENDEDLY
  Intentionally. Milton.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• INTEND
  intentum, and intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. 1. To stretch' to extend; to distend. By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale. 2. To strain; to make tense. When a bow is successively intended and remedied.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• SURINTENDANT
  Superintendent.
• MISINTEND
  To aim amiss.
• SUPERINTEND
  To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with 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,
• SUPERINTENDENCE
  The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow. Syn. -- Inspection; oversight; care; direction; control; guidance.