Word Meanings - INTENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed. Syn. -- Fixedly; steadfastly; earnestly; attentively; sedulously; diligently; eagerly.

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• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• EARNESTLY
  In an earnest manner.
• INTENTIONAL
  Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
• INTENTNESS
  The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. South.
• INTENTLY
  In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed. Syn. -- Fixedly; steadfastly; earnestly; attentively; sedulously; diligently; eagerly.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• INTENTIONALLY
  In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose.
• INTENT
  1. Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement. 2. Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to,
• EAGERLY
  In an eager manner.
• FIXATION
  1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of
• FIXABLE
  Capable of being fixed.
• INTENTION
  Any mental apprehension of an object. First intention , a conception of a thing formed by the first or direct application of the mind to the individual object; an idea or image; as, man, stone. -- Second intention , a conception generalized from
• FIXIDITY
  Fixedness. Boyle.
• FIXATIVE
  That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• TRANSFIX
  To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
• PERFIX
  To fix surely; to appoint.
• CRUCIFIXION
  1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3.