Definition of "entent" []

• Obsolete form of intent. (adjective)
• Obsolete form of intent. (noun)

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• "Galloway is a Scot and they just watered down bankruptcy laws to the entent that he would have been discharged after 12 months!"
• "When God had in V. daies made perfecte the heauens and the earth, and the furniture of bothe: whiche the Latines for the goodlinesse and beautie thereof, call Mundus, and we (I knowe not for what reason) haue named the worlde: the sixth daie, to the entent there mighte be one to enioye, and be Lorde ooer all, he made the moste notable creature Man."
• "Moyses had beaten out all the enhabitauntes of the contry, then to the entent he might satle the peoples hartes towarde him for euer: deuised them newe ordres, and ceremonies cleane contrary to all other nacions."