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Attend   /ətˈɛnd/   Listen
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Attend  v. t.  (past & past part. attended; pres. part. attending)  
1.
To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. (Obs.) "The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger."
2.
To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
3.
To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve. "The fifth had charge sick persons to attend." "Attends the emperor in his royal court." "With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither."
4.
To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. "What cares must then attend the toiling swain."
5.
To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.
6.
To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for. (Obs.) "The state that attends all men after this." "Three days I promised to attend my doom."
Synonyms: To Attend, Mind, Regard, Heed, Notice. Attend is generic, the rest are specific terms. To mind is to attend so that it may not be forgotten; to regard is to look on a thing as of importance; to heed is to attend to a thing from a principle of caution; to notice is to think on that which strikes the senses. See Accompany.


Attend  v. i.  
1.
To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; usually followed by to. "Attend to the voice of my supplications." "Man can not at the same time attend to two objects."
2.
To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; often followed by on or upon. "He was required to attend upon the committee."
3.
(with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business.
4.
To wait; to stay; to delay. (Obs.) "For this perfection she must yet attend, Till to her Maker she espoused be."
Synonyms: To Attend, Listen, Hearken. We attend with a view to hear and learn; we listen with fixed attention, in order to hear correctly, or to consider what has been said; we hearken when we listen with a willing mind, and in reference to obeying.





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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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