Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TEM'ER-ATE, a. [L. intemeratus.]

Pure; undefiled. [Not in use.]

IN-TEM'ER-ATE-NESS, n.

State of being unpolluted. [Not used.] Donne.

IN-TEM'PER-A-MENT, n. [in and temperant.]

A bad state or constitution; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. Harvey.

IN-TEM'PER-ANCE, n. [Fr. from L. intemperantia.]

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.
2. Habitual indulgence in drinking spirituous liquors, with or without intoxication. 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. L. Beecher.

IN-TEM'PER-ATE, a. [L. intemperatus; in and temperatus, from tempero, to moderate or restrain.]

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,
2. Addicted to an excessive or habitual use of spirituous liquors.
3. Passionate; ungovernable. Shak.
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.

IN-TEM'PER-ATE, v.t.

To disorder. [Not in use.] Whitaker.

IN-TEM'PER-ATE-LY, adv.

With excessive indulgence of appetite or passion; with undue exertion; immoderately; excessively.

IN-TEM'PER-ATE-NESS, n.

1. Want of moderation; excessive degree of indulgence; as, the intemperateness of appetite or passion.
2. Immoderate degree of any quality in the weather, as in cold, heat or storms.

IN-TEM'PER-A-TURE, n.

Excess of some quality.

IN-TEM-PEST'IVE, a. [L. intempestivus.]

Untimely. [Not used.] Burton.

IN-TEM-PEST'IVE-LY, adv.

Unseasonably. [Not used.]

IN-TEM-PES-TIV'I-TY, n.

Untimeliness. [Not used.]

IN-TEN'A-BLE, a. [in and tenable.]

That can not be held or maintained; that is not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. Warburton. [Untenable, though not more proper, is more generally used.]

IN-TEND', v.t. [L. intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from tenor, Gr. τεινω, to stretch.]

1. To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend. By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Hale. [This literal sense is now uncommon.]
2. To mean; to design; to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. [This is now the usual sense.] For they intended evil against thee. Ps. xxi.
3. To regard; to fix the mind on; to attend; to take care of. Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Philip. Bacon. [This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.]
4. To enforce; to make intense. Brown.

IN-TEND'ANT, n. [Fr. from L. intendo.]

1. One who has the charge, oversight, direction or management of some public business; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance: a word much used in France, and sometimes in England and America, but we generally use in lieu of it superintendent.
2. In Charleston, South Carolina, the mayor or chief municipal officer of the city.

IN-TEND'ED, pp.

1. Designed; purposed; as, the insult was intended.
2. Stretched; made intense. [Little used.]

IN-TEND'ED-LY, adv.

With purpose or intention; by design. Milton.

IN-TEND'ER, n.

One who intends.

IN-TEND'I-MENT, n.

Attention; understanding; consideration. [Obs.]

IN-TEND'ING, ppr.

1. Meaning; designing; purposing.
2. Stretching; distending. [Little used.]

IN-TEND'MENT, n. [Fr. entendement, with a sense somewhat different.]

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.

IN-TEN'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. in and tener, tender.]

To make tender; to soften. Autumn vigor gives, / Equal, intenerating, milky grain. Philips.

IN-TEN'ER-A-TED, pp.

Made tender or soft.

IN-TEN'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Making tender.

IN-TEN-ER-A'TION, n.

The act of making soft or tender. Bacon. [Intenerate and its derivatives are little used.]