intend Copy link Outline 1. expr. by in animo est, with dat. of subject2. cōgĭto, 1 (hardly so decided an expr. as preced.)3. expr. by fut. part. act. (intending to do something4. destĭno, 1 (to fix, settle)5. intendo, di, tum and sum, 3 (to direct one's course towards. aim at) • intend: i. e. to mean, purpose: 1. expr. by in animo est, with dat. of subject: they i.'d to pass through the Province, sibi erat in animo iter per Provinciam facere, Caes. B. G. 1, 7: Cic. Also habere in animo (less freq.), Cic. R. Am. 18, 52 (istum exheredare in animo habebat). 2. cōgĭto, 1 (hardly so decided an expr. as preced.): do you i. to receive him into your house, hunc tu in aedes c. recipere? Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 58: I i. to return ("am thinking of returning") to Antium by ..., Antium me recipere cogito a. d. ..., Cic. Att. 2, 9, fin. 3. expr. by fut. part. act. (intending to do something: see L. G. § 527): cf. Liv. 21, 38, init., in Etruriam ducit, eam quoque gentem aut vi aut voluntate adjuncturus (intending to gain): Tac.: Plin. Ep. 4. destĭno, 1 (to fix, settle): without doing what he had i.'d, infectis iis quae agere destinaverat, Caes. B. C. 1, 33: esp. to i. to buy: the table-stand which you had i.'d for yourself, trapezophoron quod tibi destinaras, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, med. 5. intendo, di, tum and sum, 3 (to direct one's course towards. aim at): he could not accomplish what he i.'d, neque quod intenderat efficere potest, Sall. Jug. 25: also with animo, Cic. Ph. 10, 4, 9. (N.B.--Neither of the two last can be used to denote a mere intention: the former denotes a definite determination; the latter implies that an attempt is actually made.) See also to mean.