intendment

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The one sort of these also are for the most part taken strictly according to the letter, the other more largely and beneficially after their intendment and meaning.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

A corporation aggregate of many is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

From Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.

From Othello by Shakespeare, William

Yet manifested he is, as the intendment of the work he was about required,—manifested to reproach and ignominy for our sin.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

I think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.

From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)