INSUME — INTENTNESS NWAD INSUME.1

INSUME, v.t. [L. insumo.] To take in. [Not used.] NWAD INSUME.1

INSUPERABILITY, n. [from insuperable.] NWAD INSUPERABILITY.1

The quality of being insuperable. [Little used.] NWAD INSUPERABILITY.2

INSUPERABLE, a. [L. insuperabilis; in and superabilis, from supero, to overcome or surpass.] NWAD INSUPERABLE.1

1. That cannot be overcome or surmounted; insurmountable; as insuperable difficulties, objections or obstacles. NWAD INSUPERABLE.2

2. That cannot be passed over. NWAD INSUPERABLE.3

And middle natures, how they long to join, NWAD INSUPERABLE.4

Yet never pass th’ insuperable line. NWAD INSUPERABLE.5

The latter application is unusual. This word is rarely or never used in reference to any enemy, in the sense of invincible or unconquerable. We do not say that troops or enemies are insuperable; but the word is applied chiefly to difficulties, objections, obstacles or impediments. NWAD INSUPERABLE.6

INSUPERABLENESS, n. The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable. NWAD INSUPERABLENESS.1

INSUPERABLY, adv. In a manner or degree not to be overcome; insurmountably. NWAD INSUPERABLY.1

INSUPPORTABLE, a. NWAD INSUPPORTABLE.1

1. That cannot be supported or borne; as the weight or burden is insupportable. NWAD INSUPPORTABLE.2

2. That cannot be borne or endured; insufferable; intolerable. We say of heat or cold, insult, indignity or disgrace, it is insupportable. NWAD INSUPPORTABLE.3

INSUPPORTABLENESS, n. The quality of being insupportable; insufferableness; the state of being beyond endurance. NWAD INSUPPORTABLENESS.1

INSUPPORTABLY, adv. In a manner or degree that cannot be supported or endured. NWAD INSUPPORTABLY.1

INSUPPRESSIBLE, a. Not to be suppressed or concealed. NWAD INSUPPRESSIBLE.1

INSUPPRESSIVE, a. Not to be suppressed. NWAD INSUPPRESSIVE.1

INSURABLE, a. [from insure.] That may be insured against loss or damage; proper to be insured. NWAD INSURABLE.1

The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. NWAD INSURABLE.2

INSURANCE, n. [from insure.] The act of insuring or assuring against loss or damage; or a contract by which one engages for a stipulated consideration or premium per cent to make up a loss which another may sustain. Insurance is usually made on goods or property exposed to uncommon hazard, or on lives. NWAD INSURANCE.1

Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business is to insure against loss or damage. NWAD INSURANCE.2

INSURANCER, n. An underwriter. [Not in use.] NWAD INSURANCER.1

INSURE, v.t. inshu’re. [in and sure.] To make sure or secure; to contract or covenant for a consideration to secure a person against loss; or to engage to indemnify another for the loss of any specified property, at a certain stipulated rate per cent, called a premium. The property usually insured is such as is exposed to extraordinary hazard. Thus the merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; houses are insured against fire; sometimes hazardous debts ar insured, and sometimes lives. NWAD INSURE.1

INSURE, v.i. To underwrite; to practice making insurance. This company insures at 3 per cent, or at a low premium. NWAD INSURE.2

INSURED, pp. Made sure; assured; secured against loss. NWAD INSURED.1

INSURER, n. One who insures; the person who contracts to pay the losses of another for a premium; an underwriter. NWAD INSURER.1

INSURGENT, a. [L. insurgens; in and surgo, to rise.] in opposition to lawful civil or political authority; as insurgent chiefs. NWAD INSURGENT.1

INSURGENT, n. A person who rises in opposition to civil or political authority; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws. [See Insurrection.] An insurgent differs from a rebel. The insurgent opposes the execution of a particular law or laws; the rebel attempts to overthrow or change the government, or he revolts and attempts to place his country under another jurisdiction. All rebels are insurgents, but all insurgents are not rebels. NWAD INSURGENT.2

INSURING, ppr. Making secure; assuring against loss; engaging to indemnify for losses. NWAD INSURING.1

INSURMOUNTABLE, a. NWAD INSURMOUNTABLE.1

1. Insuperable; that cannot be surmounted or overcome; as an insurmountable difficulty, obstacle or impedient. NWAD INSURMOUNTABLE.2

2. Not to be surmounted; not to be passed by ascending; as an insurmountable wall or rampart. NWAD INSURMOUNTABLE.3

INSURMOUNTABLY, adv. In a manner or degree not to be overcome. NWAD INSURMOUNTABLY.1

INSURRECTION, n. [L. insurgo; in and surgo, to rise.] NWAD INSURRECTION.1

1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. Insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion. NWAD INSURRECTION.2

It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra 4:19. NWAD INSURRECTION.3

2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Little used.] NWAD INSURRECTION.4

INSURRECTIONAL, a. Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection. NWAD INSURRECTIONAL.1

INSURRECTIONARY, a. Pertaining or suitable to insurrection. NWAD INSURRECTIONARY.1

INSUSCEPTIBILITY, n. [from insusceptible.] Want of susceptibility, or capacity to feel or perceive. NWAD INSUSCEPTIBILITY.1

INSUSCEPTIBLE, a. [in and susceptible.] NWAD INSUSCEPTIBLE.1

1. Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected or impressed; as a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity. NWAD INSUSCEPTIBLE.2

2. Not capable of receiving or admitting. NWAD INSUSCEPTIBLE.3

INSUSURRATION, n. [L. insusurro.] The act of whispering into something. NWAD INSUSURRATION.1

INTACTABLE, a. [L. intactum; in and tactum, tango, to touch.] perceptible to the touch. NWAD INTACTABLE.1

INTAGLIATED, a. intal’yated. [See Intaglio.] NWAD INTAGLIATED.1

Engraved or stamped on. NWAD INTAGLIATED.2

INTAGLIO, n. intal’yo. Literally, a cutting or engraving; hence, any thing engraved, or a precious stone with a head or an inscription engraved on it. NWAD INTAGLIO.1

INTANGIBLE, a. [in and tangible.] That cannot or may not be touched. NWAD INTANGIBLE.1

1. Not perceptible to the touch. NWAD INTANGIBLE.2

A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. NWAD INTANGIBLE.3

INTANGIBLENESS, INTANGIBILITY, n. The quality of being intangible. NWAD INTANGIBLENESS.1

INTASTABLE, a. [in and tastable, taste.] That cannot be tasted; that cannot affect the organs of taste. NWAD INTASTABLE.1

INTEGER, n. [L. See Entire.] The whole of any thing; particularly, in arithmetic, a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction. Thus in the number 54.7, in decimal arithmetic, 54 is an integer, and 7 a fraction, or seven tenths of a unit. NWAD INTEGER.1

INTEGRAL, a. Whole; entire. NWAD INTEGRAL.1

A local motion keepeth bodies integral. NWAD INTEGRAL.2

1. Making part of a whole, or necessary to make a whole. NWAD INTEGRAL.3

2. Not fractional. NWAD INTEGRAL.4

3. Uninjured; complete; not defective. NWAD INTEGRAL.5

INTEGRAL, n. A whole; an entire thing. NWAD INTEGRAL.6

INTEGRALITY, n. Entireness. [Not used.] NWAD INTEGRALITY.1

INTEGRALLY, adv. Wholly; completely. NWAD INTEGRALLY.1

INTEGRANT, a. Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing. NWAD INTEGRANT.1

Integrant particles of bodies, are those into which bodies are reduced by solution or mechanical division, as distinct from elementary particles. NWAD INTEGRANT.2

INTEGRATE, v.t. [L. integro.] To renew; to restore; to perfect; to make a thing entire. NWAD INTEGRATE.1

INTEGRATED, pp. Made entire. NWAD INTEGRATED.1

INTEGRATION, n. The act of making entire. NWAD INTEGRATION.1

INTEGRITY, n. [L. integritas, from integer.] NWAD INTEGRITY.1

1. Wholeness; entireness; unbroken state. The constitution of the U. States guaranties to each state the integrity of its territories. The contracting parties guarantied the integrity of the empire. NWAD INTEGRITY.2

2. The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. Integrity comprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property, and agencies for others. NWAD INTEGRITY.3

The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are odious as well as perishable. NWAD INTEGRITY.4

3. Purity; genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired state; as the integrity of language. NWAD INTEGRITY.5

INTEGUMATION, n. [L. intego, to cover.] NWAD INTEGUMATION.1

That part of physiology, which treats of the integuments of animals and plants. NWAD INTEGUMATION.2

INTEGUMENT, n. [L. integumentum, intego, to cover; in and tego. See Deck.] That which naturally invests or covers another thing; but appropriately and chiefly, in anatomy, a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part. The skin of seeds and the shells of crustaceous animals are denominated integuments. NWAD INTEGUMENT.1

INTELLECT, n. [L. intellectus, from intelligo, to understand. See Intelligence.] That faculty of the human soul or mind, which receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it by the senses or by perception, or by other means; the faculty of thinking; otherwise called the understanding. A clear intellect receives and entertains the same ideas which another communicates with perspicuity. NWAD INTELLECT.1

INTELLECTION, n. [L. intellectio, from intelligo.] NWAD INTELLECTION.1

The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas. NWAD INTELLECTION.2

INTELLECTIVE, a. Having power to understand. NWAD INTELLECTIVE.1

1. Produced by the understanding. NWAD INTELLECTIVE.2

2. To be perceived by the understanding, not by the senses. NWAD INTELLECTIVE.3

INTELLECTUAL, a. NWAD INTELLECTUAL.1

1. Relating to the intellect or understanding; belonging to the mind; performed by the understanding; mental; as intellectual power or operations. NWAD INTELLECTUAL.2

2. Ideal; perceived by the intellect; existing in the understanding; as an intellectual scene. NWAD INTELLECTUAL.3

3. Having the power of understanding; as an intellectual being. NWAD INTELLECTUAL.4

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as intellectual philosophy, now sometimes called mental philosophy. NWAD INTELLECTUAL.5

INTELLECTUAL, n. The intellect or understanding. [Little used.] NWAD INTELLECTUAL.6

INTELLECTUALIST, n. One who overrates the understanding. NWAD INTELLECTUALIST.1

INTELLECTUALITY, n. The state of intellectual power. [Not used.] NWAD INTELLECTUALITY.1

INTELLECTUALLY, adv. By means of the understanding. NWAD INTELLECTUALLY.1

INTELLIGENCE, n. [L. intelligentia, from intelligo, to understand. This verb is probably composed of in, inter, or intus, within, and lego to collect. The primary sense of understand is generally to take or hold, as we say, to take one’s ideas or meaning.] NWAD INTELLIGENCE.1

1. Understanding; skill. NWAD INTELLIGENCE.2

2. Notice; information communicated; an account of things distant or before unknown. Intelligence may be transmitted by messengers, by letters, by signals or by telegraphs. NWAD INTELLIGENCE.3

3. Commerce of acquaintance; terms of intercourse. Good intelligence between men is harmony. So we say, there is a good understanding between persons, when they have the same views, or are free from discord. NWAD INTELLIGENCE.4

4. A spiritual being; as a created intelligence. It is believed that the universe is peopled with innumerable superior intelligences. NWAD INTELLIGENCE.5

INTELLIGENCE, v.t. To inform; to instruct. [Little used.] NWAD INTELLIGENCE.6

INTELLIGENCED, pp. Informed; instructed. [Little used.] NWAD INTELLIGENCED.1

INTELLIGENCE-OFFICE, n. An office or place where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired. NWAD INTELLIGENCE-OFFICE.1

INTELLIGENCER, n. One who sends or conveys intelligence; one who gives notice of private or distant transactions; a messenger. NWAD INTELLIGENCER.1

1. A public paper; a newspaper. NWAD INTELLIGENCER.2

INTELLIGENCING, ppr. or a. Giving or conveying notice to from a distance. NWAD INTELLIGENCING.1

INTELLIGENT, a. [L. intelligens.] NWAD INTELLIGENT.1

1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason. Man is an intelligent being. NWAD INTELLIGENT.2

2. Knowing; understanding; well informed; skilled; as an intelligent officer; an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; sometimes followed by of; as intelligent of seasons. NWAD INTELLIGENT.3

3. Giving information. [Not used nor proper.] NWAD INTELLIGENT.4

INTELLIGENTIAL, a. Consisting of unbodied mind. NWAD INTELLIGENTIAL.1

Food alike those pure NWAD INTELLIGENTIAL.2

Intelligential substances require. NWAD INTELLIGENTIAL.3

1. Intellectual; exercising understanding. NWAD INTELLIGENTIAL.4

INTELLIGIBILITY, INTELLIGIBLENESS, n. [from intelligible.] The quality of state of being intelligible; the possibility of being understood. NWAD INTELLIGIBILITY.1

INTELLIGIBLE, a. [L. intelligibilis.] That may be understood or comprehended; as an intelligible account. The rules of human duty are intelligible to minds of the smallest capacity. NWAD INTELLIGIBLE.1

INTELLIGIBLY, adv. In a manner to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly. NWAD INTELLIGIBLY.1

INTEMERATE, a. [L. intemeratus.] Pure; undefiled. [Not in use.] NWAD INTEMERATE.1

INTEMERATENESS, n. State of being unpolluted. [Not used.] NWAD INTEMERATENESS.1

INTEMPERAMENT, n. [in and temperament.] NWAD INTEMPERAMENT.1

A bad state or constitution; as the intemperament of an ulcerated part. NWAD INTEMPERAMENT.2

INTEMPERANCE, n. [L. intemperantia.] NWAD INTEMPERANCE.1

1. In a general sense, want of moderation or due restraint; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any exertion of body or mind, or any indulgence of appetites or passions which is injurious to the person or contrary to morality; as intemperance in study or in labor, in eating or drinking, or in any other gratification. Hence, appropriately and emphatically, NWAD INTEMPERANCE.2

2. Habitual indulgence in drinking spirituous liquors, with or without intoxication. NWAD INTEMPERANCE.3

Should a foreign army land on our shores, to levy such a tax upon us as intemperance levies--no mortal power could resist the swelling tide of indignation that would overwhelm it. NWAD INTEMPERANCE.4

INTEMPERATE, a. [L. intemperatus; in and temperatus, from tempero, to moderate or restrain.] NWAD INTEMPERATE.1

1. Not moderate or restrained within due limits; indulging to excess any appetite or passion, either habitually or in a particular instance; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion. A man may be intemperate in passion, intemperate in labor, intemperate in study or zeal. Hence by customary application, intemperate denotes indulging to excess in the use of food or drink, but particularly in the use of spirituous liquors. Hence, NWAD INTEMPERATE.2

2. Addicted to an excessive or habitual use of spirituous liquors. NWAD INTEMPERATE.3

3. Passionate; ungovernable. NWAD INTEMPERATE.4

4. Excessive; exceeding the convenient mean or degree; as an intemperate climate. The weather may be rendered intemperate by violent winds, rain or snow, or by excessive cold or heat. NWAD INTEMPERATE.5

INTEMPERATE, v.t. To disorder. [Not in use.] NWAD INTEMPERATE.6

INTEMPERATELY, adv. With excessive indulgence of appetite or passion; with undue exertion; immoderately; excessively. NWAD INTEMPERATELY.1

INTEMPERATENESS, n. Want of moderation; excessive degree of indulgence; as the intemperateness of appetite or passion. NWAD INTEMPERATENESS.1

1. Immoderate degree of any quality in the weather, as in cold, heat or storms. NWAD INTEMPERATENESS.2

INTEMPERATURE, n. Excess of some quality. NWAD INTEMPERATURE.1

INTEMPESTIVE, a. [L. intempestivus.] Untimely. [Not used.] NWAD INTEMPESTIVE.1

INTEMPESTIVELY, adv. Unseasonably. [Not used.] NWAD INTEMPESTIVELY.1

INTEMPESTIVITY, n. Untimeliness. [Not used.] NWAD INTEMPESTIVITY.1

INTENABLE, a. [in and tenable.] That cannot be held or maintained; that is not defensible; as an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. NWAD INTENABLE.1

[Untenable, though not more proper, is more generally used.] NWAD INTENABLE.2

INTEND, v.t. [L. intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from teneo; Gr. to stretch.] NWAD INTEND.1

1. To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend. NWAD INTEND.2

By this the lungs are intended or remitted. NWAD INTEND.3

[This literal sense is now uncommon.] NWAD INTEND.4

2. To mean; to design; to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. [This is now the usual sense.] NWAD INTEND.5

For they intended evil against thee. Psalm 21:11. NWAD INTEND.6

3. To regard; to fix the mind on; to attend; to take care of. NWAD INTEND.7

Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Phillip. NWAD INTEND.8

[This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.] NWAD INTEND.9

4. To enforce; to make intense. NWAD INTEND.10

INTENDANT, n. [L. intendo.] NWAD INTENDANT.1

1. One who has the charge, oversight, direction or management of some public business; as an intendant of marine; as intendant of finance; a word much used in France, and sometimes in England and America, but we generally use in lieu of it superintendent. NWAD INTENDANT.2

2. In Charleston, S. Carolina, the mayor or chief municipal officer of the city. NWAD INTENDANT.3

INTENDED, pp. Designed; purposed; as, the insult was intended. NWAD INTENDED.1

1. Stretched; made intense. [Little used.] NWAD INTENDED.2

INTENDEDLY, adv. With intention or purpose; by design. NWAD INTENDEDLY.1

INTENDER, pp. One who intends. NWAD INTENDER.1

INTENDIMENT, n. Attention; understanding; consideration. NWAD INTENDIMENT.1

INTENDING, ppr. Meaning; designing; purposing. NWAD INTENDING.1

1. Stretching; distending. [Little used.] NWAD INTENDING.2

INTENDMENT, n. Intention; design; in law, the true meaning of a person or of a law, or of any legal instrument. In the construction of statutes or of contracts, the intendment of the same is, if possible, to be ascertained, that is, the true meaning or intention of the legislator or contracting party. NWAD INTENDMENT.1

INTENERATE, v.t. [L. in and tener, tender.] NWAD INTENERATE.1

To make tender; to soften. NWAD INTENERATE.2

Autumn vigor gives, NWAD INTENERATE.3

Equal, intenerating, milky grain. NWAD INTENERATE.4

INTENERATED, pp. Made tender or soft. NWAD INTENERATED.1

INTENERATING, ppr. Making tender. NWAD INTENERATING.1

INTENERATION, n. The act of making soft or tender. NWAD INTENERATION.1

[Intenerate and its derivatives are little used.] NWAD INTENERATION.2

INTENSE, a. intens’. [L. intensus, from intendo, to stretch.] NWAD INTENSE.1

1. Literally, strained, stretched; hence, very close, strict, as when the mind is fixed or bent on a particular subject; as, intense study or application; intense thought. NWAD INTENSE.2

2. Raised to a high degree; violent; vehement; as intense heat. NWAD INTENSE.3

3. Very severe or keen; as intense cold. NWAD INTENSE.4

4. Vehement; ardent; as intense phrases in language. NWAD INTENSE.5

5. Extreme in degree. NWAD INTENSE.6

The doctrine of the atonement supposes that the sins of men were so laid on Christ, that his sufferings were inconceivably intense and overwhelming. NWAD INTENSE.7

6. Kept on the stretch; anxiously attentive; opposed to remiss. NWAD INTENSE.8

INTENSELY, adv. intens’ly. To an extreme degree; vehemently; as a furnace intensely heated; weather intensely cold. NWAD INTENSELY.1

1. Attentively; earnestly. NWAD INTENSELY.2

INTENSENESS, n. intens’ness. The state of being strained or stretched; intensity; as the intenseness of a cord. NWAD INTENSENESS.1

1. The state of being raised or concentrated to a great degree; extreme violence; as the intenseness of heat or cold. NWAD INTENSENESS.2

2. Extreme closeness; as the intenseness of study or thought. NWAD INTENSENESS.3

INTENSION, n. [L. intensio.] A straining, stretching or bending; the state of being strained; as the intension of a musical string. NWAD INTENSION.1

1. Increase of power or energy of any quality; opposed to remission. NWAD INTENSION.2

INTENSITY, n. The state of being strained or stretched; intenseness, as of a musical chord. NWAD INTENSITY.1

1. The state of being raised to a great degree; extreme violence; as the intensity of heat. NWAD INTENSITY.2

2. Extreme closeness; as intensity of application. NWAD INTENSITY.3

3. Excess; extreme degree; as the intensity of guilt. NWAD INTENSITY.4

INTENSIVE, a. Stretched, or admitting of extension. NWAD INTENSIVE.1

1. Intent; unremitted; assiduous; as intensive circumspection. NWAD INTENSIVE.2

2. Serving to give force or emphasis; as an intensive particle or preposition. NWAD INTENSIVE.3

INTENSIVELY, adv. By increase of degree; in a manner to give force. NWAD INTENSIVELY.1

INTENT, a. [L. intentus, from intendo. See Intend.] NWAD INTENT.1

Literally, having the mind strained or bent on an object; hence, fixed closely; sedulously applied; eager in pursuit of an object; anxiously diligent; formerly with to, but now with on; as intent on business or pleasure; intent on the acquisition of science. NWAD INTENT.2

Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker-- NWAD INTENT.3

INTENT, n. Literally, the stretching of the mind towards an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim; applied to persons or things. NWAD INTENT.4

The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the laws of duties supernatural. NWAD INTENT.5

I ask therefore, for what intent ye have sent for me? Acts 10:29. NWAD INTENT.6

To all intents, in all senses; whatever may be designed. NWAD INTENT.7

He was miserable to all intents and purposes. NWAD INTENT.8

INTENTION, n. [L. intentio. See Intend.] NWAD INTENTION.1

1. Primarily, a stretching or bending of the mind towards an object; hence, uncommon exertion of the intellectual faculties; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. NWAD INTENTION.2

Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on every side, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas. NWAD INTENTION.3

2. Design; purpose; the fixed direction of the mind to a particular object, or a determination to act in a particular manner. It is my intention to proceed to Paris. NWAD INTENTION.4

3. End or aim; the object to be accomplished. NWAD INTENTION.5

In chronical distempers, the principal intention is to restore the tone of the solid parts. NWAD INTENTION.6

4. The state of being strained. [See Intension.] NWAD INTENTION.7

INTENTIONAL, a. Intended; designed; done with design or purpose. The act was intentional, not accidental. NWAD INTENTIONAL.1

INTENTIONALLY, adv. By design; of purpose; not casually. NWAD INTENTIONALLY.1

INTENTIONED, in composition; as well-intentioned, having good designs, honest in purpose; ill-intentioned, having ill designs. NWAD INTENTIONED.1

INTENTIVE, a. Attentive; having the mind close applied. NWAD INTENTIVE.1

[This word is nearly superseded by attentive.] NWAD INTENTIVE.2

INTENTIVELY, adv. Closely; with close application. NWAD INTENTIVELY.1

INTENTIVENESS, n. Closeness of attention or application of mind. NWAD INTENTIVENESS.1

INTENTLY, adv. With close attention or application; with eagerness or earnestness; as the mind intently directed to an object; the eyes intently fixed; the man is intently employed in the study of geology. NWAD INTENTLY.1

INTENTNESS, n. The state of being intent; close application; constant employment of the mind. NWAD INTENTNESS.1