Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hold out; stretch forth; extend forward: used especially of a spear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To hold out; to stretch forth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To hold out; to
stretch forth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dai Havard MP: Well I think, you know, Gordon Brown is in a situation where he's almost trying to protend that he's listened to people who have influenced the situation but our actions didn't influence the situation.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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It may protend the inability to make real progress once in office.
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Dai Havard MP: Well I think, you know, Gordon Brown is in a situation where he's almost trying to protend that he's listened to people who have influenced the situation but our actions didn't influence the situation.
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And what does this decision protend for the constitutional rights of teachers in their classroom speech and in their scholarship?
Balkinization 2006
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They join, they thicken, they protend their spears;
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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_Carnifici_, which will protend A murdring desolation to that will,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They join, they thicken, they protend their spears;
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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Radaronline yesterday, he had a piece up commenting on the real trouble the recent poll shifts protend for Obama over the next 8 weeks.
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"Nay, my dear, I'm sure I don't protend to say that there ain't.
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