Extend vs Protend - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between extend and protend

is that extend is to increase in extent while protend is (obsolete) to hold out; to stretch forth.

(en verb)

To increase in extent.

To possess a certain extent.

To cause to increase in extent.

To cause to last for a longer period of time.

To straighten (a limb).

To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

to extend sympathy to the suffering

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

to extend liquors

(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widen

* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extent

(en verb)

(obsolete) To hold out; to stretch forth.

With his protended lance he makes defence. — Dryden.

(Webster 1913)