adverting

Verb

advert (third-person singular simple present adverts, present participle adverting, simple past and past participle adverted)

1. (intransitive) To take notice, to pay attention (to).
   • At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria
2. (obsolete, transitive) To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).
   1. (obsolete, transitive, usually fixed phrases) To turn the attention (of something or someone) (to or toward) some object).
      • To meditate, one must advert the mind toward the breath
3. (intransitive) To call attention, refer (to).
   • ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

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