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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 intended
 (a.)有意的,故意的,已訂婚的已訂婚者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·tend v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intended; p. pr. & vb. n. Intending.]
 1. To stretch; to extend; to distend. [Obs.]
    By this the lungs are intended or remitted.   --Sir M. Hale.
 2. To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]
    When a bow is successively intended and remedied.   --Cudworth.
 3. To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.]
    Magnetism may be intended and remitted.   --Sir I. Newton.
 4. To apply with energy.
    Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction.   --Emerson.
 5. To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic]
 6. To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. [Obs.]
    Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip.   --Bacon.
    My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying.   --Fuller.
 7. To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.
    They intended evil against thee.   --Ps. xxi. 11.
 To-morrow he intends
 To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.   --Shak.
 8. To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold. [Obs.]
 Modesty was made
 When she was first intended.   --Beau. & Fl.
 9. To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. [Obs.]
    Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·tend·ed, a.
 1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.]
 2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.
    They drew a curse from an intended good.   --Cowper.
 3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·tend·ed, n. One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.
    If it were not that I might appear to disparage his intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be throwing herself away.   --Dickens.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 intended
      adj 1: intentional or planned; "your intended trip abroud"; "an
             intended insult" [ant: unintended]
      2: future; betrothed; "his intended bride"