second intention
Americannoun
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"You mean the second intention, don't you?" sais I. "No," he replied, "I mean what I say."
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
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 Maxwell, W. B.
Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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 Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
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)
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