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Address   /ˈædrˌɛs/  /ədrˈɛs/   Listen
noun
Address  n.  
1.
Act of preparing one's self. (Obs.)
2.
Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
3.
A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
4.
Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
5.
Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
6.
Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
7.
Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
Synonyms: Speech; discourse; harangue; oration; petition; lecture; readiness; ingenuity; tact; adroitness.


verb
Address  v. t.  (past & past part. addressed; pres. part. addressing)  
1.
To aim; to direct. (Obs.) "And this good knight his way with me addrest."
2.
To prepare or make ready. (Obs.) "His foe was soon addressed." "Turnus addressed his men to single fight." "The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming."
3.
Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. "These men addressed themselves to the task."
4.
To clothe or array; to dress. (Archaic) "Tecla... addressed herself in man's apparel."
5.
To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). "The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance."
6.
To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. "Are not your orders to address the senate?" "The representatives of the nation addressed the king."
7.
To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
8.
To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
9.
(Com.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
To address one's self to.
(a)
To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to.
(b)
To direct one's speech or discourse to.
To address the ball (Golf), to take aim at the ball, adjusting the grip on the club, the attitude of the body, etc., to a convenient position.


Address  v. i.  
1.
To prepare one's self. (Obs.) "Let us address to tend on Hector's heels."
2.
To direct speech. (Obs.) "Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest." Note: The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun.





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"Address" Quotes from Famous Books



... and nature do each of them oblige your petitioner to be very solicitous in this matter; and, although many weighty cases do exercise your thoughts, yet your petitioner can have no rest in her mind till such time as she has offered this her address on behalf ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham
... uncertain period of our banking credits, the absence of personal attention in any sudden crisis might throw you on the rocks. Naturally, when I went I wrote to Alice that I was coming; but I always found that she had gone and left no address for forwarding mail from the Credit Lyonnais. Once when I went without writing she eluded me, and the second time I found that she had a cottage at Versailles. That, as you know, was the only occasion when I ever saw ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... from the shoulders like the cape of a coat. There was a chirping, cheery, old-school air in his appearance which was undeniably Dutch, and most harmonious with the associations of his writing. He seemed, indeed, to have stepped out of his own books; and the cordial grace and humor of his address, if he stopped for a passing chat, were delightfully characteristic. He was then our most famous man of letters, but he was simply free from all self-consciousness and assumption and dogmatism." Congenial occupation was one secret of Irving's cheerfulness and ...
— Washington Irving • Charles Dudley Warner
... was intoxicated with a felicity which seemed too immense, and yet I felt melancholy, but Henriette, who looked sad likewise, had no reproach to address to me. Our sadness was in reality nothing but shyness; we loved each other, but we had had no time to become acquainted. We exchanged only a few words, there was nothing witty, nothing interesting in our conversation, which ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... movements, and therefore determined to warehouse their furniture in town, to take furnished apartments there for three months, and then to move elsewhere. Any letters which might arrive at Fenmarket for them during these three months would be sent to them at their new address; nothing probably would come afterwards, and as nobody in Fenmarket would care to take any trouble about them, their trace would become obliterated. They found some rooms near Myddelton Square, Pentonville, not a particularly cheerful place, ...
— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford


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