second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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second intention

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

For them, our best established axioms would be inconceivable, would have no more meaning than that 'Abracadabra is a second intention.'

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

"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

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