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English → English (gcide) Definition: Second intention Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.] 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other. [1913 Webster] And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. [1913 Webster] 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. [1913 Webster] May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. [1913 Webster] 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. [1913 Webster] A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. [1913 Webster] Second Adventist. See Adventist. Second cousin, the child of a cousin. Second-cut file. See under File. Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground , or middle distance. [R.] Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers. Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. Second intention. See under Intention. Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor. Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. [1913 Webster] On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] Intention \In*ten"tion\, n. [F. intention, L. intentio. See Intend, and cf. Intension.] [1913 Webster] 1. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. [1913 Webster] Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York. [1913 Webster] Hell is paved with good intentions. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 3. The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim. [1913 Webster] In [chronical distempers], the principal intention is to restore the tone of the solid parts. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 4. The state of being strained. See Intension. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 5. (Logic) Any mental apprehension of an object. [1913 Webster] First intention (Logic), a conception of a thing formed by the first or direct application of the mind to the individual object; an idea or image; as, man, stone. Second intention (Logic), a conception generalized from first intuition or apprehension already formed by the mind; an abstract notion; especially, a classified notion, as species, genus, whiteness. To heal by the first intention (Surg.), to cicatrize, as a wound, without suppuration. To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after suppuration. Syn: Design; purpose; object; aim; intent; drift; purport; meaning. See Design. [1913 Webster]

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