second intention
Americannoun
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"Abracadabra is a second intention" is neither true nor false.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill
If she carried either the first or the second intention into effect, it was Dale's custom to go along the road and meet her returning.
From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
As the play proceeds he is made, as if with a second intention, more and more the antithesis, as he is the antipathy, of the prince.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
The talk turned on "Society" in the second intention of the word —— had enumerated certain houses in which you must be at home if pretending to the exclusive social set.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Even then the milk would have a suspicious flavor, or post-mortem smell, I apprehend; it would be the same thing, by second intention, as the surgeons say.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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