second intention
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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
Healing by second intention is characterized by pus formation and granulation tissue.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
With this second intention, I was to have combined, by the courtesy of the French Headquarters, a visit to certain central portions of the French line, including Soissons, Reims, and Verdun.
From Towards the Goal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
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