Definition of "intended"

intended

/ɪnˈtɛndɪd/

adjective
not comparable
1. Planned.
2. (obsolete) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
  Quotations
  The same advauncing high above his head, With sharpe intended sting so rude him smott
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
noun
plural intendeds
1. Fiancé or fiancée.
  Quotations
  His mother had died lately, watched over, as I was told, by his Intended.
  1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part III (Conclusion), page 651
  That the monsters exceed the boundaries of scale produces much stageplay for the male suitors. For instance, when they must approach their "intendeds," the suitors slowly and with great trepidation approach, quickly speak, and scurry away like the frightened bunnies they are; when they must make actual contact, Fetherfool runs up and down a ladder to salute the Giant.
  2003, Cynthia Lowenthal, Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Southern Illinois University Press, page 147
verb
1. simple past and past participle of intend
  Quotations
  His purpose was to discover how long these guests intended to stay.
  1917, Joseph Conrad, Victory‎, published 2006