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attendest

attendest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of attend.

Meaning of attend

Verb

attend (third-person singular simple present attends, present participle attending, simple past and past participle attended)

  1. (transitive) To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).
    • The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 146
  2. (transitive) To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort.
    • Servants attend the king day and night.
  3. (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place).
    • Children must attend primary school.
  4. (transitive) To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.
  5. (transitive) Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany.
    • a measure attended with ill effects
  6. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To look after (someone or something); to tend.
    • They [plate and jewels] are in a Trunke / Attended by my men: I vvill make bold / To ſend them to you, onely for this night: […]1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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Origin of attendest

From attend + -est.

Questions about attendest

What is attendest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Attendest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of attend.

Words near attendest in the dictionary

  1. attendedst
  2. attendee
  3. attendees
  4. attender
  5. attenders
  6. attendest
  7. attendeth
  8. attendin'
  9. attending
  10. attending to
  11. attending to one's knitting

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