The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attent \At*tent"\, a. [L. attentus, p. p. of attendere. See Attend, v. t.] Attentive; heedful. [Archaic]
Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.
--2 Chron.
vi. 40.
Attent \At*tent"\, n.
Attention; heed. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "attentive," from Latin attentus, past participle of attendere (see attend). As a noun, "intention, aim" (early 13c.), from Old French atente "act of attending," from fem. of Latin attentus.
Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) attentive, heedful; intent. (from 15th c.)
Usage examples of "attent".
Every day, ever since he had taken possession of the house, he had supervised the milking in the cow barns to measure with his own hand the quantity of milk that the three presidential wagons would carry to the barracks in the city, in the kitchen he would have a mug of black coffee and some cassava without knowing too well the direction in which the whimsical winds of the new day would blow him, always attent on the gabbling of the servants, who were the people in the house who spoke the same language as he, whose serious blandishments he respected most, and whose hearts he best deciphered, and a short time before nine o'clock he would take a slow bath in water with boiled leaves in the granite cistern built in the shadow of the almond trees of his private courtyard, and only after eleven o'clock would he manage to overcome the drowsiness of dawn and confront the hazards of reality.