Category:Attendance

At*tend"ance, n. Etym: [OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See Attend, v. t.]

1. Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.] Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13.

2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding.

3. Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.] Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker.

4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.