protend

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin protendere, from pro (“before, forth”) + tendere (“to stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈtɛnd/

Verb

protend (third-person singular simple present protends, present participle protending, simple past and past participle protended)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hold out; to stretch forth.
   • 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:

     With his protended lance he makes defence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “protend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dropnet, portend