protend

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

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈtɛnd/

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.
   • 1664, Richard Sanders, Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed:

     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.

   • 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.

   • 1814, George Vaughan Sampson, A Memoir, page 19:

     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;

2. (phenomenology) To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
   • 2000, Michael Thomas Carroll, ‎Eddie Tafoya, Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, page 129:

     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.

   • 2003, Donn Welton, The New Husserl: A Critical Reader, page 133:

     Instead, our retentions are made up of al the words I have spoken, and we protend toward the completion of my sentence or idea.

   • 2012, Harris M. Berger, Metal, Rock, and Jazz, page 227:

     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.

   • 2023, Mitchell Atkinson III, Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis, page 152:

     Consciousness may not protend everything in the horizon; there is too much.

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