attend

1. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.Examples: "The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]"; "VVe had at this Time a great many frightful Stories told us of Nurſes and VVatchmen, vvho looked after the dying People, that is to ſay, hir'd Nurſes, vvho attended infected People, uſing them barbarouſly, ſtarving them, ſmothering them, or by other vvicked Means, haſtening their End, that is to ſay, murthering of them: […]"; "Is any ſick? the Man of Roſs relieves; / Preſcribes, attends, the med'cine makes, and gives."transitive

2. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.Examples: "Servants attend the king day and night."; "I thinke your Lordſhip is not ignorant / Hovv his companion, youthfull Valentine, / Attends the Emperour in his royall Court."; "Madame, the young Gentleman of the Count Orſino’s is return’d, I could hardly entreate him backe: he attends your Ladyſhips pleaſure."Synonyms: bestand, serve, aid, attend, attend to, await, bestand, besteadtransitive

3. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.Examples: "Children must attend primary school."; "Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade-duty, for which he in the other world expected pay with arrears,— […]"; "It was made a crime to attend a dissenting place of worship. A single justice of the peace might convict without a jury, and might, for the third offence, pass sentence of transportation beyond sea for seven years."transitive

4. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.transitive

5. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.Examples: "a measure attended with ill effects"; "[I] haue alſo attended them vvith briefe obſeruations, ſuch as to my vnderſtandinge, offer noe violence to the ſence, though I knovve they may bee applyed to a more diuine vſe: […]"; "[M]y ſelfe and my poore prayers ſhall to my laſt gaſpe labour to attend you."transitive

6. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.Examples: "They [plate and jewels] are in a Trunke / Attended by my men: I vvill make bold / To ſend them to you, onely for this night: […]"; "One ſeek the harbour vvhere the veſſels moor, / And bring thy friends, Telemachus! aſhore, / (Leave only tvvo the gally to attend) / Another to Laerceus muſt vve ſend, […]"archaicobsoletetransitive