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Attend

verb

(past & past part. attended; pres. part. attending)

Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.. Synonym: go to. "I rarely attend services at my church" , "Did you go to the meeting?"

Take charge of or deal with. Synonyms: look, see, take care. "I must attend to this matter" , "She took care of this business"

To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result.

Work for or be a servant to. Synonyms: assist, 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"

Give heed (to). Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed. "She hung on his every word" , "They attended to everything he said"

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... Indeed, their superiority in this respect is supposed to have been the principal cause of William's victory over Harold; for the men of both armies were equal in point of bravery. The Normans had not only smiths to attend to the arms of the knights, but farriers to shoe their horses. Henry de Femariis, or Ferrers, "prefectus fabrorum," was one of the principal officers entrusted with the supervision of the Conqueror's ferriery department; and long after the earldom was founded his descendants ...

— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... plains about and within the city. Great ministers and functionaries came with their retinues and their guests. Native princes from Rajputana brought their elephants and their escorts. Thither also came Violet Oliver. It was, indeed, to attend this Durbar that she had been invited out from England. She stayed in a small camp on the great Parade Ground where the tents faced one another in a single street, each with its little garden of grass and flowers before the door. The ends of ...

— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason

... attend before dinner, so it was not until quarter to twelve that he had a chance to run up to the room again. To his surprise ...

— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield

... and the peasant girls to deal with, I should not complain; for in simple souls there are qualities and virtues and a responsive spring, but not in the commercial or the richer classes! You cannot imagine what those women are. If only they attend Mass on Sunday and perform their Easter duties they think they may do anything and everything; and thenceforth their one idea is not so much to avoid offending the Saviour as to disarm Him by mean subterfuges. They speak ill of their neighbour, injuring him cruelly, refusing ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... conference this noon with the President at the White House in relation to the Peace Conference. I told him frankly that I thought the plan for him to attend was unwise and would be a mistake. I said that I felt embarrassed in speaking to him about it because it would leave me at the head of the delegation, and I hoped that he understood that I spoke only out of a sense of duty. I pointed out that he held at present a dominant position in the ...

— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

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