Definition of intent

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Intent (a.) Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement..

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Hostile :: Hostile (a.) Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change..
Change :: Change (v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention..
Equivocate :: Equivocate (a.) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity..
Glower :: Glower (v. i.) to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
Falsehood :: Falsehood (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
Menace :: Menace (n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim..
Incursion :: Incursion (n.) A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid..
Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Intentiveness :: Intentiveness (n.) Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness.
Mind :: Mind (v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..
Grassation :: Grassation (n.) A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
Culpa :: Culpa (n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart..
Peer :: Peer (v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day..
Ecbatic :: Ecbatic (a.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered so that it was fulfilled, is ecbatic; if rendered in order that it might be. etc., is telic..
Threat :: Threat (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation..
Import :: Import (n.) That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like..
Idea :: Idea (n.) A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
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