intendment

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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

The law must govern in its natural and plain intendment, and will not be frittered away by extraneous interpretation.

From History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 by Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)

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

For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas