Crossword clues for attended
attended
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attend \At*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attended; p. pr. & vb. n. Attending.] [OE. atenden, OF. atendre, F. attendre, to expect, to wait, fr. L. attendre to stretch, (sc. animum), to apply the mind to; ad + tendere to stretch. See Tend.]
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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.
--Sir P. Sidney. To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
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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.
--Spenser.Attends the emperor in his royal court.
--Shak.With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.
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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.
--Dryden. To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.
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To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for. [Obs.]
The state that attends all men after this.
--Locke.Three days I promised to attend my doom.
--Dryden.Syn: To Attend, Mind, Regard, Heed, Notice.
Usage: 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.
--Crabb. See Accompany.
Wiktionary
That attends v
(en-past of: attend)
WordNet
adj. having accompaniment or companions or escort; "there were lone gentlemen and gentlemen accompanied by their wives" [syn: accompanied] [ant: unaccompanied]
having a caretaker or other watcher [syn: tended to(p)]
Usage examples of "attended".
Perfect calms at sea are always suspected by the experienced mariner to be the forerunners of a storm: and I know some persons, who, without being generally the devotees of superstition, are apt to apprehend that great and unusual peace or tranquillity will be attended with its opposite.
The doctors, therefore, all previous ceremonies being complied with, as this was a new patient, attended, according to desire, and laid hold on each of her hands, as they had before done on those of the corpse.
During this time she was visited by physicians, attended by nurses, and received constant messages from her acquaintance to enquire after her health.
Honour, her maid, attended her at the usual hour, she was found already up and drest.
Among the good company which had attended in the hall during the bone-setting, Mrs.
When these thoughts had fully taken possession of Jones, they occasioned a perturbation in his mind, which, in a constitution less pure and firm than his, might have been, at such a season, attended with very dangerous consequences.
Allworthy had been for some days indisposed with a cold, which had been attended with a little fever.
Chapter 10 Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency Jones retired from the company, in which we have seen him engaged, into the fields, where he intended to cool himself by a walk in the open air before he attended Mr.
Contusions and lacerations are often attended with worse phaenomena, and with more fatal consequences, than fractures.
Jones now returned in order to dress himself, while his dinner was preparing, and was, according to his orders, attended by the barber.
Benjamin, as we have said, attended him, and was very kindly desired to sit down.
A surgeon happening luckily to be in the house, immediately attended, and applied himself to dressing his wounds, which I had the pleasure to hear were not likely to be mortal.
Man of the Hill, when our heroe departed, sat himself down on the brow, where, though he had a gun in his hand, he with great patience and unconcern had attended the issue.
However, he had better fortune than what attended poor Orpheus, for he brought his companion, or rather follower, safe into the famous town of Upton.
It cannot therefore be wondered at, that the many particular circumstances which attended our travellers, and especially their retiring all to sleep at so extraordinary and unusual an hour as ten in the morning, should excite his curiosity.