intendiment

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin intendimentum.

Noun

intendiment (countable and uncountable, plural intendiments)

1. (obsolete) Understanding; careful consideration, attention.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     be nought hereat dismayd, / Till well ye wote by graue intendiment, / What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd […] .

2. (obsolete) Intention, objective.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The noble Mayd still standing all this vewd, / And merveild at his straunge intendiment.