protend

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To hold out; to stretch forth.

   “With his protended lance he makes defence.”

   “the said city of London-Derry aforesaid, and the circuit, precinct, compass, bounds, liberties, limits, franchises, and jurisdictions of the same may henceforth for ever be extended and protended, and be able and capable to extend and protend itself within and through the space and circuit of three thousand Irish paces, to be measured and limited from all and every part of the said city whatsoever as aforesaid for ever;”

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 hearing the present beat in the now-point.”

   “Instead, our retentions are made up of al the words I have spoken, and we protend toward the completion of my sentence or idea.”

   “Dann may actively think "I am going to go to the G chord"; he may prepare his hand to grasp the G, or may even protend the G chord but insulate the C chord from it —none of these will make the C a IV. Only if he protends the G and conjoins the C to it will the C be a IV chord, because to hear the C as a IV means to perform that organization of the living present.”

   “Consciousness may not protend everything in the horizon; there is too much.”