Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.