Meaning of intended in English

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« I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be. »
Joel Osteen
« Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. »
Jacques Barzun
« My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. »
Karl Philipp Moritz
« Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. »
John Ruskin
« Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. »
John Stuart Mill