[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To cause to project; to put forth, stretch forth; to thrust forward. Also figurative.

- In phenomenology: to extend (the consciousness or perception of a present act or event) into the future.


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century; earliest use found in Higden's Polychronicon. Partly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French protendre to extend, and partly from classical Latin prōtendere to stretch forth, extend, to hold out, to prolong, lengthen, in post-classical Latin also to portend (804, subsequently from 1250 in British sources) from prō- + tendere