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)).

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, 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)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

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

(approv)

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.

To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),

Opportunities to approve worth.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),

He had approved himself a great warrior.

* (George Gordon Byron),

'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.

* (Francis Parkman),

His accountapproves him a man of thought.

To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

* (Henry Rogers),

The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),

They had not approved of the deposition of James.

* (William Black),

They approved of the political institutions.

Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .

Verb

(approv)

(English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.