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Assist

verb

(past & past part. assisted; pres. part. assisting)

1.

Give help or assistance; be of service. Synonyms: aid, help. "Can you help me carry this table?" , "She never helps around the house"

2.

Act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function.

3.

Work for or be a servant to. Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on. "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair" , "Can you wait on our table, please?" , "Is a salesperson assisting you?" , "The minister served the King for many years"

noun

1.

The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose. Synonyms: aid, assistance, help. "Could not walk without assistance" , "Rescue party went to their aid" , "Offered his help in unloading"

2.

(sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play.

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... Before the Reformation it reached its height, in the Catholic world, with the famous bull of Innocent the Eighth in 1484, the infamous Malleus Maleficarum, the first of the long list of witch-finding books, and the zeal with which the State lent all the terrors of the law to assist the ecclesiastical inquisitors. Before the tribunals of those inquisitors, in the fifteenth century, innumerable victims were arraigned on the double charge of heresy and sorcery—for the crimes ran in couples, both being children and sworn servants of the Devil. ...

— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent

... to war with a more cynical and shameless determination to make the campaign pay for itself by the plunder of private property. Quite recently an order was found on the body of a German, enjoining all officers to assist in the "patriotic duty" of "draining financially the occupied territories." We are dealing, not with an honourable and civilized nation, but with a band of murdering brigands. The keepers of the national conscience have devised a monstrous and barbarous ...

— Raemaekers' Cartoons - With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers • Louis Raemaekers

... K.C.I.E., spoke of Miss Macnaughtan as a very old friend, whom he had met in many parts of the Empire. In this crisis she might well have stayed at home in her comfortable residence in London, but she had sacrificed her own personal comforts in order to assist others. They must realise that this war was something much more than a war of defence of their homes. It was a fight on behalf of the whole of humanity. A staggering blow had been dealt by our relentless ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... of thinking men, in view of all this? History, I think, teaches us that, just so far as is possible, the rule of our conduct should be to assist Evolution rather than Revolution. Religious revolution is at times inevitable, and at such times the rule of conduct should be to unite our efforts to the forces working for a new and better era; but religious revolutions ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

... with nature. It is the marriage of the intellect of man to "this goodly universe, in love and holy passion," which produces these raptures. "Intellect" includes Imagination, which is but another name for Reason in her most exalted mood;[382] these must assist the eye ...

— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge

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