Verb

(en verb)

("to kindle").

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.

* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskilful words of the passenger.

(archaic) To listen ((to), (unto)).

* , chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The fifth had charge sick persons to attend .

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Attends the emperor in his royal court.

* (1800-1859)

With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.

(senseid)To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings.

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* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p. 20:

I attended a one-room school next door to the palace and studied English, Xhosa, history and geography.

To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

What cares must then attend the toiling swain.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

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To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

the state that attends all men after this

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Three days I promised to attend my doom.

Verb

(en-verb)

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.

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To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.

* (rfdate) Milton,

Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied .

To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

* 1611 , '', ''Proverbs 23:12,

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.

* Alexander Pope

sacred vows applied to grisly Pluto

* (rfdate) Johnson

I applied myself to him for help.

To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.

Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into.

Many of them don't know it, but almost a third of the inmates are eligible to apply for parole or work-release programs.

To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.

That rule only applies to foreigners.

(obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

* Sir Philip Sidney

She was skillful in applying his humours.

(obsolete) To visit.

* Chapman

His armour was so clear, / And he applied each place so fast, that like a lightning thrown / Out of the shield of Jupiter, in every eye he shone.

(Webster 1913)