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[Pref. in- (2), and Eng. temperament (q. v.).] A bad temperament, state, or constitution. In-tem-për-ançe, *in-tem-per-aunce, s. [Fr. intempérance, from Lat. intemperant i a , from in- = not, and temper anti a = moderation, gentlene .] [TEMPERANCE.] 1. A want of moderation or self-restraint; exce . "An intemperance which, even in the most atrocious cases, ill becomes the judicial character."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. iv. 2. Exce or habitual indulgence in the use of alcoholic liquors; drunkenne . "A cruel internal malady which had been aggravated by intemperance." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. 3. An intemperate act; an act of exce . *in-tem-per-an-çỹ, s. [Lat. intemperant i a .] Intemperance; exce . "Cæsar's intemperancy in his pleasures." - North: Plu tarch , p. 619. In-těm-per-ant, *in-tem-per-aunt, a. & s. intend 3. Done in exce ; immoderate, exce ive; exceeding proper bounds. "When mariners would madly meet their doom With draughts intemperate on the sinking deck." Byron: Childe Harold , iii. 16. 4. Violent; boisterous; rough; as, intemperate weather. B. As subst.: One who is not temperate; spec if., one who is addicted to an exce ive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic liquors; an inebriate. For the difference between intemperate and ex ce ive, see EXCESSIVE. *In-těm-per-āte, v . t . [INTEMPERATE, α.] Το IMG:content-1752.png:[blocks in formation] -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being intemperate; want of moderation; exce , especially in the use of alcoholic liquors; intemperance. 2. Exce of heat or cold; unseasonablene of weather. "By unseasonable weather, by intemperatene of the air or meteors." -Hale : Contempl.; Of Contentation. *In-tem-per-a-ture, s . [Eng. in temper at (e); ure.] Exce of some quality; exce of temperature; unseasonablene . "For the great heat and in temperature of the weather." -Hackluyt: Voyages , ii. 37. *In-tem-per-oŭs, adj . [Lat. in- =not, and tem pero =to moderate.] Intemperate. *In-tem-pěstive, a . [Lat. intempestivus , from in- = not, and tempestivus = seasonable, from tempest as = season; temp us = time: Fr. in tempest if ; Ital. & Sp. intempestivo .] Not seasonable; unseasonable, untimely. "Intempestive laughing, weeping, ."-Burton: Anat. of Melancholy. (Demo crit us to the Reader.) *In-tem-pes-tive-ly, adv . [Eng. intempestive; -ly.] In an unseasonable manner or time; unseasonably. "They intempestively raile at and pronounce them damned." - Burton: Anat. Melancholy. (Demo crit us to the Reader.) *In-tem-pěs-tiv-i-ty, s. [Lat. in tempest i vitas , from intempestivus = unseasonable.] Unseasonablene ; untimeline . "Our moral books tell us of a vice, which they call ( akaipia ) intempestivity." -Hales: Serm . at Eton , p. 4. *In-ten-a-ble, a. [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. ten able (q. v.).] Not tenable; not defensible; untenable; incapable of being maintained or defended. "The more it has discovered of the intenable pretensions of the Gospel."-War burton: Works, vol. ix., ser. 13. In-tend', *en-tende, *en-tend-en, *in-tende, v. t . & i. [Fr. entendre to understand, to conceive, from Lat. intendo =to stretch out, to bend, to apply the mind: in- =in, on, and ten do to stretch; Sp. & Port. entender ; Ital. intend ere .] A. Transitive : *1. To stretch out; to distend; to extend. "By this the lungs are intended or remitted."-Hale: Orig. of Mankind . *2. To bend. "Things reciprocate forward and backward, as when a Intell. 221. perate, immoderate.] *A. As adj .: The same as INTEMPERATE (q. v.). "Soche as be in temper aunt , that is foloers of their naughtie appetites."- Udall : Apoph. of Erasmus , p. 15. †B. As subst.: One who is intemperate; a word introduced by Dr. B. W. Richardson to designate one who indulges to exce in the use of intoxicating liquors. It has since found its way into general temperance literature. In-tem-per-ate, a. & s. [Lat. in temper at us = untempered.] IMG:content-1753.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1754.png:[blocks in formation] *6. To fashion; to design. *7. To pretend; to simulate. "Tell them that you know that Hero loves me, intend a kind of zeal both to the Prince and Claudio."- Shakesp .: Much Ado about Nothing , ii. 8. 8. To design; to fix the mind on as the object to be effected or attained; to mean. "The men were quiet and sober, and intended nobody any harm."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, B. Intransitive: intendance *1. To stretch forward; to extend. 2. To have a design, purpose, or intention; to design. For the difference between to intend and to sign, see DESIGN. *In-tend-ançe, s. [Eng. intend ; -ance .] Attention; care. "But the maide, whom wee would haue specially good, requireth all intendance both of father and mother."Vives: Instruct. of a Christian Woman, bk. i., ch. i. In-těnd-an-çỹ, *In-těnden çỹ, s. [Eng. intend an(t); -су. 1. The office or position of an intendant. "A famous poet and countryman of ours who had some in tendency in an hospital built on the Via Triumphal is." -Evelyn: Memoirs; Rome, 1645. 2. The district under the charge of an intendant. In-tend-ant, *In-tendent, a. & s . [Fr., from Lat. intend ens, pr. par. of intendo .] [INTEND.] *A. As adj.: Attentive; attending. "To him I sig he all intendant I not where he were suffisante." IMG:content-1755.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Designed; done or said intentionally or of design. 3 Engaged, betrothed; as, an intended wife. C. As subst.: A person engaged to be married to another, an affianced lover. "He had called there to see his late intended."- Pall Mall Gazette. *in-těnd-ed-ly, adv . [Eng. intended; -ly.] Of set purpose or design; intentionally, designedly. "He made them more intendedly a meet help to remove the evil of being alone." -Milton : Tetrachord on. In-tender, s. [Eng. intend; -er.] One who intends or designs. "I will rather ble them, as instruments, than condemn them, as not intenders." -Feltham: Resolves , pt. i., res. 32 *In-ten-der, vt . [Pref. in- (intens.), and Eng. tender (q v.).] To make tender. "Which gives those venerable scenes full weight, And deep reception in th' intendered heart. Young: Night Thoughts , ix. 731. *In-těnd-1-ment, s. [Low Lat. intend i mentum, from Lat. intendo .) [INTEND.] 1. Attention, patient hearing, consideration. "Till well ye wot, by grave intend i ment , What woman, and wherefore doth me upbraid." Spenser. F. Q. , I. xii. 31. 2. Knowledge, skill, experience. "For she of hearbes had great intend i ment." Spenser. F. Q., III. v 32. *In-těnd ment, s. [Fr. entendement, from en tendre to understand.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Intention, design, purpose. "[We] fear the main intendment of the Scot, Who hath been still a giddy neighbor to us." Shakesp.: Henry VI . , i. 2. 2. Supervision, oversight. "Well he merited The intendments o'er the gallies at Leghorn." Ford: Fancies Chaste and Noble , 1. 1. II. Law : The true intent or meaning of a person, law, or legal document. "According to the true intendment of the laws of England."-Junius, let. 69. *in-těně-brat-ěd, a . [Lat. in-=in, and tene bra darkne .] Darkened, obscured. "A pretty conjecture in tene bra ted by antiquity."-Wotton. Remains, p. 251. *in tenerāte, v. t. [Lat. in- (intens.); tener = tender, and - ate . ] To make tender or soft; to soften. "Fear intenerates the heart, making it fit for all gracious impre ion." -Bp. Hall: Remedy of Prophanene , bk. ii., § 13. *In-ten-er-ate, adj . [INTENERATE, v.] Made tender or soft; softened, soft. *In-ten-er-ā-tion, s. [INTENERATE, v.] The act or proce of making tender or soft; softening. "The noblest use of nourishment is for the prolon gation of life, restoration of some degree of youth, and inteneration of the parts."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 55. 2347 *In-ten-1-ble, a. [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. tentble (1. v).] Incapable of holding, containing, or retaining. "Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love." Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well , 1. 3. +in-ten-sāte, v. t . [Eng. intens (e): -ate.] To make intense or more intense; to intensify. ( Emer son: English Traits , ch. iv.) In-ten-sa-tion, s. [English intens (e); -ation.] An ascending climax. ( Carlyle : Miscell ., iii. 221.) In-tens-a-tive, a . [Eng. in tens at(e); -ive.] Making intense or more intense; intensifying, add ing intensity. "An intensative attributive." -London Athenœum. In-tense, a . [Lat. in tens us , pa. par. of intendo =to stretch out.] [INTEND.] 1. Raised to the highest; strained, forced; anxiously attentive, strict, severe; as, intense study. 2. Extreme in degree; as(1) Violent, vehement, exceedingly strong; as, intense love, intense affection. (2) Exceedingly hot, ardent. "Then, woe to mortals! Titan then exerts His heat intense." Philips: Cider, L. IMG:content-1756.png:[blocks in formation] "The regal power more or le intense or remi ; that is, greater or le ." -Milton : Def. of People of England . (7) Exceedingly deep in color; as, an intense blue. In-těnse-ly, adv . [Eng. intense; -ly.] 1. In an intense manner or degree; to an extreme or very great degree; vehemently, exceedingly. "The more ardently and intensely a man loves God."Sharp: Sermons , vol. iv., ser. 8. *2 Attentively, earnestly. In-těnse -ne , s [English intense ; -ne .] The quality or state of being intense; intensity, vehe IMG:content-1757.png:[blocks in formation] In-tens-i-fi-ca-tion, s . [ Eng. intensify; c connective, and suff.- ation .] The act or proce of intensifying or making more intense. In-tens-I-fi-er, s. [Eng. intensify: -er.] One who or that which intensifies; specifically in photography, a substance used to intensify opacity of the deposit [INTENSIFY, A. 2.] In-tens-I-fy, v. t . & i . [Eng. intense ; i connective; -fy.] A. Transitive : 1. Ord. Lang.: To make intense, or more intense. "And felt how piercing is the sting of pride, By want embittered and intensified." Long fellow: Student's Tale. 2. Photog.: A term applied to various modes of giving strength or increased opacity to the deposit forming the photographic picture on an exposed and developed plate. This may be effected by depositing metallic silver, from a solution of the nitrate of that metal, by means of some iron salts, or pyrogallic acid, and also by increasing the density of the deposit already formed. One method of doing this is to first bleach it with bi-chloride of mercury, and, after well washing, to treat with dilute ammonia. B. In trans.. To become intense, or more intense; to act with greater force or energy. In-ten-sion, s. [Fr.. from Latin intensio, from in tens us, pa. par. of intendo ; Sp. intension ; Ital. in tens i one.] *I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of straining or stretching; the state of being strained or stretched. 2. The act of intensifying or rendering more intense; intensification. "Sounds will be carried further with the wind than against the wind: and likewise to rise and fall with the intension or remi ion of the wind."- Bacon: Nat. Hist. II. Logic & Metaph .: Those attributes which go to make up a complex general notion, and which cannot be taken away from it without destroying it. More usually termed COMPREHENSION (q. v.). (EXTENSION.] "The greater the extension, the le the intension ; the more objects a conception embraces, the more slender the knowledge which it conveys of any of those objects; and vice vers a." -Thomson: Laws of Thought , §. 52. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; intention In-těns'-I-tỹ, s. [Eng. intens (e); -ity.] I. Ord. Lang.: The quality or state of being intense; intensene , vehemence, violence, force, depth, severity. "She could prove to him the intensity and disinterestedne of her affection."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. x. II. Technically : 1. Magnet.: [MAGNETOMETER.] 2. Elect.: In a similar sense to 3. Thus the intensity of a current is the quantity of electricity which, in any unit of time, flows through a section of the current. That of an electric light is the amount of light it gives forth compared with that of an ordinary-sized candle, of a lamp of any given kind, or of the sun. 3. Physics, .: The concentrated energy with which a force acts; the potency of a force as measured by its effects. Used of light, of radiant or other heat, of sound, of gravity, . Intensity of pre ure, Intensity of stre : The force force per unit of area. It is of the dimensions If M stands for ma , L for length, and T for time, then intensity of pre ure or of stre = (Everett: C. G. S. System of Units (1875), p. 6.) area M LT2 In-těns-Ive, a. & s. [Eng. intens(e); -ive.] A. As adjective : 1. Admitting of intension; that may or can be intensified or increased in degree. "The intensive distance between the perfection of an angel and of a man is but finite."- Hale . (Todd.) 2. Serving to intensify, or to add force or emphasis. 3. Intense, deep, strong. "An effectual grief for sin should be serious, deep, hearty, intensive." - Bp . Hall : Balm of Gilead. 4. Intent, a iduous, very careful. "Tired with that a iduous attendance and intensive circumspection which a long fortune did require."Wotton. B. As subst.: Something serving to give force or emphasis; spec if., an intensive particle, word, or phrase. tin-těns'-Ive-ly, adv . [Eng. intensive ; -ly.] 1. In an intensive manner; by increase of degree. 2. So as to give force or emphasis. 3. Intently, a iduously, earnestly. "Let us wait reverently and intensively upon this Bethesda of God."- Hale : Contempl.; Pool of Bethesda. 4. By intension. *In-tens-Ive-ne , s . [Eng. intensive; -ne .] The quality or state of being intensive; intensity. "Where nothing might or could interrupt or divert the intensivene of his sorrow and fear."- Hale : Contemp .; Christ Crucifled. In-tent', a . [Lat. intent us , pa. par. of intendo .] Having the mind bent or strained on an object; eager in pursuit of or attention to an object; anxiously diligent; sedulously applied. (It is now followed only by on , but to was also formerly used.) "The village of Plymouth Woke from its sleep, and arose, intent on its manifold labors." Long fellow: Miles Standish, v. In-tent', *en-tente, s. [Fr. entente, from en tendre to understand, to conceive; Ital. & Sp. in ten to . 1. The act of stretching, straining, or bending the mind or thoughts toward an object; a design, a purpose, an intention. 2. Meaning, drift. (1) To the intent that : In order that. (2) To all intents, To all intents and purposes : Practically, really, in reality. "A people, who are in general excluded from any share of the legislature, are, to all intents and purposes , as much slaves, when twenty, independent of them, govern, as when but one domineers."-Burke: A Vindication of Na tional Society. In-ten-tion, *in-ten-cy-one, s . [Fr. intention, from Lat. intentionem , acc us. of intentio =an endeavor, an effort, from intent us , pa. par. of intendo ; Sp. in ten cion; Ital. intenzione .] I. Ordinary Language : 2. The act of stretching or bending the mind toward an object; closene of application; sedu- lous attention or application; earnestne . "My soul Is bent with more intention on their follies." Ben Jonson: Cynthia's Revels , i. 1. intentional That which is intended; an aim, an end, an object. 5. The purpose for which anything is intended; object. "The bones (in the human frame) are reckoned to be 284; the distinct scopes or intentions in each of these are above 40, in all about 100,000."- Wilkins : Nat. Rel., bk. i., ch. vi. II. Technically : 1. Logic: Any mental apprehension of an object. 2. Roman Theology: (1) Interior a ent to an external act on the part of the minister; held by some theologians to be e ential to the validity of such an act, when of a sacramental character. One of the arguments against the validity of Anglican Orders, urged by some Roman writers, is the absence of intention in the Elizabeth an bishops and their consecrators to do what the Roman Church does when she consecrates bishops or ordains priests. (2) The special purpose to say ma , to recite vocal prayers, or perform any act of devotion with a particular object in view, as for the spiritual benefit of some person or the impetration of some grace for one's self. IMG:content-1758.png:[blocks in formation] (2) Second intention : Logic: A conception generalized from the first intuition or apprehension already formed by the mind; an abstract notion. "The first intention of every word is its real meaning; the second intention , its logical value, according to the function of thought to which it belongs." -Thomson: Laws of Thought, Introd., p. 24. (3) To heal by the first intention : Surg.: To cicatrize without suppuration, as a wound. (4) To heal by the second intention: Surgery: To unite after suppuration; said of a wound. In-ten-tion-al, a. [Eng. intention: -al.] Done with intention, design, or purpose; designed, intended, not accidental. "Both armies in the field, however, refuse to fight for their hated masters, and sustain intentional defeats." Lewis: Cred. Early Roman Hist . (1855), ii. 205. *In-ten-tion-al-i-ty, s. [English intentional ; ity. The quality or state of being intentional. In-ten-tion-al-ly, adv . [Eng. intentional ; -ly .] 1. In an intentional manner; with intention or design; of set purpose; designedly. 2. In will, if not in deed. "Innocent, at least Intentionally guiltle , I began." Glover: A then aid xxi. In-těn'-tioned, a. [Eng. intention ; ed.] Having intentions or designs; used in composition, as well- intentioned having good or honest intentions. *in-ten-tive, a . [Lat, intentivus , from intent us , pa. par. of intendo ; Ital. intentivo .] Having the mind closely applied; attentive; intent. "I haue found you, faith full, obedient, and to all my requestes and desires diligent and intentiue ."- Hall : Ed. ward IV . (an. 23.) 2348 in-ter-ac-çěs-sõr-ý, a. [Pref. inter-, and Eng. acce ory (q.v.).] Anat .: Situated between the acce ory proce of one vertebra and the mamillary proce of the next. Used of inter acce ory muscles, called the inter a ce or i i. †In-ter-act, s. [Pref. inter- , and Eng. act (q. v.).] 1. Lit .: The interval between two acts of a drama; a short piece between others; an interlude. 2. Fig .: Any intermediate employment or time. in-ter-ăct, v . t . [INTERACT, s.] To act reciprocally one on another. In-ter-ăc-tion, s. [Pref.inter-, and Eng. action (q. v.).] 1. An intermediate action. 2. Mutual or reciprocal action. In-ter-ad-di-tive, a . & s . [Pref. inter- , and Eng. additive (q. v.).] A. As adj .: Added or inserted parenthetically or between others, as a clause in a sentence. B. As subst .: Anything added or inserted parenthetically.