Definition of "tended to" []

• Having a caretaker or other watcher (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "His subjective starting-point, cogito, ergo sum, his insistence on methodic doubt, his advocacy of reflection on thought and close scrutiny of our fundamental ideas, all tended to encourage the method of internal observation, whilst the mechanical explanation of the"
• "The spirit of Esdras's reform outlasted the reformer and survived in the authority henceforth attached to the Law, an authority soon to overshadow the prestige of the Temple and of the priesthood itself; and tended to put into prominence the teachers and expounders of the Law, the"
• "Statewide bans on affirmative action have tended to have the greatest impact on flagship universities like Michigan and on professional schools."