Word Meanings - ENTEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.

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• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• APPLY
  attach to; ad + plicare to fold, to twist together. See Applicant, 1. To lay or place; to put or adjust ; -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. He said, and the sword his
• ATTENDANCY
  The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant.
• ATTENDER
  One who, or that which, attends.
• ATTENDEMENT
  Intent. Spenser.
• REAPPLY
  To apply again.
• MISATTEND
  To misunderstand; to disregard. Milton.
• NONATTENDANCE
  A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
• SELF-APPLYING
  Applying to or by one's self.
• MISAPPLY
  To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.