Crossword clues for addressing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Address \Ad*dress"\ ([a^]d*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addressed (-dr[e^]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Addressing.] [OE. adressen to raise erect, adorn, OF. adrecier, to straighten, address, F. adresser, fr. [`a] (L. ad) + OF. drecier, F. dresser, to straighten, arrange. See Dress, v.]
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To aim; to direct. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.And this good knight his way with me addrest.
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To prepare or make ready. [Obs.]
His foe was soon addressed.
--Spenser.Turnus addressed his men to single fight.
--Dryden.The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.
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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.
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To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic]
Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel.
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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.
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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?
--Addison.The representatives of the nation addressed the king.
--Swift. To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
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(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.
To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail 2 (context computing English) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage 3 (context linguistics English) A mode, manner, or form of direct one's speech to an audience. vb. (present participle of address English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "addressing".
Thrusting them into a basin of water, Adad cleansed himself before again addressing Semerket.
Klia flopped down unceremoniously in front of Seregil but ignored him completely, addressing Alec as if they were old friends.
Maud answered, and called to two men I had not noticed, addressing one as almoner and the other as chamberlain.
She was barely conscious that the Bailly had been addressing Philip, until he had stopped and Philip had risen to reply.
When the beauty found herself alone with me, she began by addressing friendly reproaches to me.
I gaze at the familiar iconography: my brother forthrightly addressing the camera, almost hungrily sentimental and bonhomous, his arm around me to proclaim the occasion.
These descriptions are the parts which Buffon intended for the general reader, expecting, doubtless, and desiring that such a reader should skip the dry parts he had been addressing to the more studious.
Addressing himself to the new prisoner, he said that, having to get a bed and other necessaries, he would leave us in the garret till he came back, and that, in the mean time, the cell would be freed from the bad smell, which was only oil.
Previous to the time of Socrates, orators in addressing popular assemblies, lawyers in pleading cases, and all public speakers, appear to have made use of the cithara as a sort of accompaniment, if for no other purpose than to assure themselves of securing a proper pitch of the voice.
I could see it clearly in his way of addressing me, as well as in the change in his proceedings.
Mr Lemley addressing Barry and Eric, whose mouths at this point resembled the ever-open splash cupulas of urinals found in the finest hotels in the land.
When she spoke, it was with the mildness of a cushat dove addressing another cushat dove from whom it was hoping to borrow money.
As she rose from her seat, she did not thank the guests for their applause, but, addressing the young artist with affability, she told him, with a sweet smile, that she had never played on a finer instrument.
The same gentleman addressing himself again to me, remarked that very likely the windows of my room did not close well.
After addressing me in a very complimentary manner, she drew all my answers from her pocket, and enquired whether I had any pressing engagements.