attend

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).transitive

• 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.

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

• Servants attend the king day and night.

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; 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).transitive

• Children must attend primary school.

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.transitive

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany.transitive

• a measure attended with ill effects

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; To look after (someone or something); to tend.archaicobsoletetransitive

• 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: […]
• One ſeek the harbour vvhere the veſſels moor, / And bring thy friends, Telemachus! aſhore, / (Leave only tvvo the gally to attend) / Another to Laerceus muſt vve ſend, […]

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; Followed by to: to look after someone or something.intransitive

• Valets attend to their employers’ wardrobes.

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; To be ready to wait upon someone or their instructions as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (followed by on or upon), to accompany someone in order to assist or wait upon them.intransitive

• [H]e entertained a gard of three thovvſand about him, beſides a band of young gentlemen of the order of knightes that attended alvvayes upon his perſone ready at commaundement, vvhom he called the garde againſt the Senate.
• Following on the veiled Bride / Fifty female slaves attend / In costly robes that gleam / With interwoven gold, […]

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; Followed by at: to go to and be present at a place for some purpose; also (obsolete), followed by on: to be present at and take part in an event.intransitive

• He died (according to Hermippas) at Piſa, embracing his ſon, victor in the Olympick games, of the cæſtus, the vveakneſſe of his age overcome vvith exceſſe of joy; all vvho vvere preſent at the great aſſembly attended on his funeralls, […]
• 'Whither goest thou?' he exclaimed, 'at this hour, were it not better thou attendedst at vespers?'

Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.; Followed by to: to take action with respect to someone or something; to deal with.intransitive

• Secretaries attend to correspondence.