† entendantadj.
Obsolete.
a. Attentive (to).
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [adjective] > attentive to
entendanta1387
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α.
1292 Britton i. ii. §18 Et voloms qe nos viscountes et nos baillifs soint entendauntz a eux et a lour maundementz.]
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 425 And but þou be entendaunt..to myn commaundements..I schal sende men þat schal scourge þe.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 93 And if ye deen be comaundeed for to be entendaunt hem for to helpen.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 365 Jewes eke and Sarazines, To him I sigh all entendaunt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 2542 Bad alle til him entendaunt be.
1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 15v/1 The Kynge of Fraunce..commaunded that al men sholde be as entendant to Kynge Leyr..as it were unto hymselfe.
b. In attendance. = attendant adj. 1, 2.
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adj.a1387- hold up oil
- hold up one's head
- hold up one's nose
- hold up the parade
- hold wag
- hold waken
- hold ward
- hold water
- hold way
- hold weight with
- hold wind
- hold with
- hold with arch for
- hold with arch of
- hold with arch on
- hold with his bill in the water
- hold with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- hold with the hare and run with the hounds
- hold your horses!
- hold, clepe, bind, call to warrantise
- hold, have scorn at, of
- hold, keep a or one's seat
- hold, keep a thing dern
- hold, keep dern
- hold, keep in suspense