Definition of Intendants

1. Noun. (plural of intendant) ¹

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Definition of Intendants

1. intendant [n] - See also: intendant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intendants

intemperateness
intemperature
intemperaunce
intempestive
intempestively
intempestivity
intenable
intence
intencely
intend
intendance
intendances
intendancies
intendancy
intendant
intendants (current term)
intended
intendedly
intendeds
intender
intenders
intendest
intendeth
intendiment
intending
intendment
intendments
intends
intenerate
intenerated

Literary usage of Intendants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"The intendants,6 as the term is here used, were the intendants of the provinces, — intendants of justice, of police, and 1 On several occasions, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The intendants des finances existed until ihe end of the ancien régime; ... The intendants des provinces date from the last thirty years of the loth century ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"Such \ b intendance is divided into intendants, ranking with general officers, sub-intendants with colonels, and Assistant-intendants with majors ; besides ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"At length Richelieu had placed the whole of France under a new class of royal officers, the intendants. The jurisdiction of each Intendant was known as a ..."

5. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"Napoleon virtually restored the intendants, but exchanged the hated name for ... The intendance is divided into intendants, ranking with general officers, ..."

6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1789)
"Loiu Countries divided into nine circles, and intendants and ... for- Kd all obédience to the intendants and their ..."

7. The History of the Grain Trade in France, 1400-1710 by Abbott Payson Usher (1913)
"The intendants shall provide for the shipment of all grain bought in pursuance of their ... The Consuls shall entrust to the intendants not more than 20000 ..."

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