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Attended   /ətˈɛndəd/   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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... kindness of their fathers, I received an honor more precious to me as the token of concentrated regards than as the means of advancement; yet greatly heightened in practical importance by the testimony it implied from the best of all witnesses. That honor, three times renewed, was attended by passages of excitement which look dizzy even in the distance—with much on my part requiring allowance, and much allowance rendered by those to whom my utmost services were due; with the painful consciousness ...
— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6 - Of Literature, Art, And Science, New York, August 5, 1850 • Various
... are two causes to which this coincidence is to be attributed; one is the country where they originate, with their consequent train of thinking; the other arises out of the circumstances which have hitherto attended their situation. Their peculiar notions and customs, leave no doubt of their being of eastern origin. In oriental countries, attachment to habit is so strong, that what has been once current among ...
— A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies • John Hoyland
... are clubbed together under the generic head of Charity. Far be it from me to say one word in disparagement of any effort that is prompted by a sincere desire to alleviate the misery of our fellow creatures, but the most charitable are those who most deplore the utter failure which has, up till now, attended all their efforts to do more than temporarily alleviate pain, or effect an occasional improvement in ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... and indulgence who hovers over the worlds does not make a second washing of the human race, it is doubtless because so little success attended the first. ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac
... Lane's ancient cousin, was equally famous. The amount of this fiery and head-splitting liquor which the two old men thus got away with was afterward gleefully recounted in the wagons and fearfully whispered of in the little Dutch church at Horse's Neck which the Jacobuses had attended for ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various


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