second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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Example Sentences

"Abracadabra is a second intention" is neither true nor false.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart

And this his second intention was to "have it out," as he expressed it, "with that league of curs and serpents, Vypan, Goad, and Terryer."

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

In his second chapter on healing he talks about healing by first and second intention.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph

Signorelli was the first, and, with the exception of Michael Angelo, the last painter thus to use the body, without sentiment, without voluptuousness, without any second intention whatsoever, as the supreme decorative principle.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Racy Saxon monosyllables, close to us as touch and sight, he will intermix readily with those long, savoursome, Latin words, rich in "second intention."

From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Pater, Walter