intendment

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But I cannot find that, either in fact or in legal intendment, he was appointed during the present Presidential term.

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)

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

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

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

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

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