ATTEND', v.t. [L. attendo; ad and tendo, to stretch, to tend. See Tend.]

1. To listen; to regard with attention; followed by to. Attend to the voice of my supplication. Ps. lxxxvi. Hence much used in the imperative, attend!
2. To regard with observation, and correspondent practice; as, my son, attend to my words. Hence, to regard with compliance. He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. – Ps. lxvi.
3. To fix the attention upon, as an object of pursuit; to be busy or engaged in; as, to attend to the study of the Scriptures.
4. To wait on; to accompany or be present, in pursuance of duty; with on or upon; as, to attend upon a committee; to attend upon business. Hence,
5. To wait on, in service or worship; to serve. That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 1 Cor. vii.
6. To stay; to delay. [Obs.] For this perfection she must yet attend, / Till to her Maker she espoused be. – Davies.
7. To wait; to be within call. – Spenser.

1. To go with, or accompany, as a companion, minister or servant.
2. To be present; to accompany or be united to; as, a cold attended with fever.
3. To be present for some duty, implying charge or oversight; to wait on; as, the physician or the nurse attends the sick.
4. To be present in business; to be in company from curiosity, or from some connection in affairs; as, lawyers or spectators attend a court.
5. To be consequent to, from connection of cause; as, a measure attended with ill effects.
6. To await; to remain, abide or be in store for; as, happiness or misery attends us after death.
7. To wait for; to lie in wait. – Shak.
8. To wait or stay for. Three days I promised to attend my doom. – Dryden.
9. To accompany with solicitude; to regard. Their hunger thus appeased, their care attends The doubtful fortune of their absent friends. – Dryden.
10. To regard; to fix the mind upon. The pilot doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. – Sidney. This is not now a legitimate sense. To express this idea, we now use the verb intransitively, with to, attend to.
11. To expect. [Not in use.] – Raleigh.

1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger.
   Sir P. Sidney.

2. To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to.
   
   

   Attend to the voice of my supplications.
   Ps. lxxxvi. 6.

   Man can not at the same time attend to two objects.
   Jer. Taylor.

3. To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
4. To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon.
   
   

   He was required to attend upon the committee.
   Clarendon.

5. To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.
   
   

   The fifth had charge sick persons to attend.
   Spenser.

   Attends the emperor in his royal court.
   Shak.

   With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.
   Macaulay.

6. (with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business.
7. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects.
   
   

   What cares must then attend the toiling swain.
   Dryden.

8. To wait; to stay; to delay.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   For this perfection she must yet attend,
   Till to her Maker she espoused be.
   Sir J. Davies.

   Syn. -- To Attend, Listen, Hearken. We attend with a view to hear and learn; we listen with fixed attention, in order to hear correctly, or to consider what has been said; we hearken when we listen with a willing mind, and in reference to obeying.

9. To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.
10. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    The state that attends all men after this.
    Locke.

    Three days I promised to attend my doom.
    Dryden.

    Syn. -- To Attend, Mind, Regard, Heed, Notice. Attend is generic, the rest are specific terms. To mind is to attend so that it may not be forgotten; to regard is to look on a thing as of importance; to heed is to attend to a thing from a principle of caution; to notice is to think on that which strikes the senses. Crabb. See Accompany.