protended

Verb

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.
   • 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...1664, Richard Sanders, Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed
2. To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
   • 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...2000, Michael Thomas Carroll, Eddie Tafoya, Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, page 129