protend
verb/pɹəʊˈtɛnd/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin protendere, from pro (“before, forth”) + tendere (“to stretch”).
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Obsolete To hold out; to stretch forth.
- Amongst the which, as the most Noble Qualities, Heat and Moisture are the active formative in Nature, Calidity and Humidity equally proportionately joyn'd, compose the most superlative constitution , fully protending and dilating the parts, but if Heat much exceed moisture in composition, so that it passe into a siccity, it much protends the body, but little dilates it, causing a long slender meager form, even as frigidity mixt with Humidity products a Body spread bread but short, but heat and moisture predominating, confer to the body a due ongitude and latitude of parts.1664, Richard Sanders, Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed:
- With his protended lance he makes defence.1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
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- the said city of London-Derry aforesaid, and the circuit, precinct, compass, bounds, liberties, limits, franchises, and jurisdictions of the same may henceforth for ever be extended and protended, and be able and capable to extend and protend itself within and through the space and circuit of three thousand Irish paces, to be measured and limited from all and every part of the said city whatsoever as aforesaid for ever;1814, George Vaughan Sampson, A Memoir, page 19:
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Human sciences, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Sciences To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
- At the moment that the first beat is sounded, if the listener is to hear it as a division of a larger temporal unit, he or she must concretely protend the other beats of the bar; that is, the listener must experience, in the temporal "space" of the near future, three more beats while he or she is hearing the present beat in the now-point.2000, Michael Thomas Carroll, Eddie Tafoya, Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, page 129:
- Instead, our retentions are made up of al the words I have spoken, and we protend toward the completion of my sentence or idea.2003, Donn Welton, The New Husserl: A Critical Reader, page 133:
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- Dann may actively think "I am going to go to the G chord"; he may prepare his hand to grasp the G, or may even protend the G chord but insulate the C chord from it —none of these will make the C a IV. Only if he protends the G and conjoins the C to it will the C be a IV chord, because to hear the C as a IV means to perform that organization of the living present.2012, Harris M. Berger, Metal, Rock, and Jazz, page 227:
- Consciousness may not protend everything in the horizon; there is too much.2023, Mitchell Atkinson III, Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis, page 152:
- Related terms
- protension, protensive, protention