Verb

(head)

(assist)

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).

A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.

(label) To attend

* 1967 , The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church , revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:

To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.

To help.

* {{quote-news

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(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.

Verb

(head)

(manage)

Verb

(manag)

To direct or be in charge of.

To handle or control (a situation, job).

To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:

The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].

To succeed at an attempt

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis

, title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

(Shakespeare)