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(lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.

#(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

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, passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away

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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}

#To be introduced to someone.

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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

#(lb) To French kiss someone.

(lb) Of groups: to gather or oppose.

#To gather for a formal or social discussion.

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#*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

#To come together in conflict.

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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:Weapons more violent, when next we meet , / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

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#(lb) To play a match.

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(lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.

#To converge and finally touch or intersect.

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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner (might do).

#To touch or hit something while moving.

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#To adjoin, be physically touching.

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To satisfy; to comply with.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.

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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}

* 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.