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attend

verb
/əˈtɛnd/US

Etymology

PIE word *h₂éd From Middle English attenden, atenden (“to devote oneself (to a task, etc.); to pay attention to (something), to look after; to consider (something); to expect or look forward to (something); to intend to do (something); to help or serve (someone), attend upon; to take care of (something)”), from Old French atendre (“to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”), from Latin attendere, adtendere (“to pay attention to, attend; to direct or turn toward”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + tendō (“to direct one’s course; to extend, stretch; to exert, strive”). Doublet of attempt and tend.

  1. derived from attendō
  2. derived from atendre — “to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”
  3. inherited from attenden

Definitions

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

    • The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]
    • Is any ſick? the Man of Roſs relieves; / Preſcribes, attends, the med'cine makes, and gives.

  2. Senses relating to directing one's attention.

    • Pyrocles minde was all thius while so fixed upon another devotion, that he no more attentively marked his friends discourse, then […] the diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth attend the unskilful words of a passinger: […]
    • Avvay, I do condemne mine eares, that haue / So long attended thee.
    • But Goddess! thou, thy ſuppliant Son attend, / To high Olympus’ ſhining Court aſcend, / Urge all the Ties to former Service ovv'd, / And ſue for Vengeance to the Thund'ring God.

  3. Senses relating to waiting for something.

    • Ægyptian ingenuity vvas more unſatisfied, contriving their bodies in ſvveet conſiſtences, to attend the return of their ſouls. But all vvas vanity, feeding the vvinde, and folly.
    • Three days I promis'd to attend my Doom, / And tvvo long days and nights are yet to come: […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To intend (something).

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Derived

attendable, attended, attendee, attender, attending, attend to, coattend, disattend, misattend, overattend, preattend, reattend, reattendance, reattender, stretch-attend posture, tend, underattend

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at attend. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at attend. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at attend

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA