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atendance (c.1185)

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atendance (c.1185)

attendance,  entendance  
  FEW:  attendere 25,708a Gdf:  atendance 1,469c GdfC: TL: atendance 1,628 DEAF: DMF:  attendance  TLF: OED:  attendance n.  MED:  attenda(u)nce n.  DMLBS:  attendentia 152c

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1waiting
( c.1185 )  si me remandez […] Vostre plaisir sanz demorance, Kar mult est longe l’atendance  Proth ANTS 7532
2expectation, hope
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Mes solaz e ma disiraunce, Tout mon refut e m’atendance, De touz mez mauz ma pardonance  Ross ANTS 1866
( 1326-27 )  de quele patronage lui & ses auncestres ount esté sesy du temps dount il n’i ad memorie, & de l’atendaunce du Priour en Priour de l’avaunt dite meson  Rot Parl1 ii 415
3attendance, waiting upon
( 1341 )  et l’attendance fait al roy  YBB 15 Ed III 103
4attendance, service
( 1335 )  come […] le Roi et son Conseil lui eussent ordeinez d’estre Maire et d’entendre seulement a cel office, parmi quele entendance il ad perdu […] les avantages et profit de tutes ses marchandises  Northern Pet 88
5finan. claim for expenses arising from attendance
( 1308-09 )  qar service si chiet en parcenerye et donne attendance  YBB Ed II i 178
6finan.(financial?) assistance
( 1382 )  le dit Evesq’, s’il purra avoir l’atendance de West-Admirall, trovera […] x grosses niefs  Rot Parl1 iii 146
bref, clause d’atendance
lawletter of authority (for an agent) (?)
( 1339 )  qe le viscount eit bref d’atendance d’estre attendant au dit Monsieur R.  Rot Parl1 ii 109
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  vous mandons que sur ce vous facez faire noz lettres au dit E. […] desoubz nostre seal en vostre garde esteant ov une clause d’atendance en deue fourme  Lett & Pet 321.259.10
nun atendance
nunatendance
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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