attendancen.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 339 No thing askith so grete attendaunces, As doth your lay.

c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1306 My lugges anon gyffe a-tendans.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 453 The Gaulis gaif sic attendance to him, that he wes notit and knawin to all thare armye.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 6 Men generally think that..attendance vnto the word, is for old age.

1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 56 I would advise the tutor..not to press his young pupil to give attendance, when he is eagerly engaged with some other favourite pursuit.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxii. 232 Every man ȝeveth..so gode attendance to his servyse.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 447 And tuke mare attendance and care to ordoure thame.

1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 103 Commands for our Attendance unto such Duties.

a1466 R. Taverham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 321 He wole yef atendaunce vn-to you for to haue summe letter from you.

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xviii. sig. E3^v How long shal men wayte and geue attendance vpon rulers, before thei can come to the spech of them?

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 108. ⁋10 Compelled by want to attendance and solicitation.

1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxiv. 31 The poor are never seen to wait In vain attendance at their gate.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.vi^v He dauncth atendaunce, are atendantes dauncyng.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C4 Nobles..That waite attendance for a gratious looke.

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. ii. iv. 451 Shut him out of doores once or twice, let him dance attendance.

a1704 T. Brown Comical View London & Westm. (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 69 Why should the Loadstone complain of the Iron for not dancing Attendance after it.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xviii. 175 What was he about, dancing attendance here?

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 112 Nedyn not to have grete Wag[e]s for their Attendaunce to this Conceile.

1658 Whole Duty of Man (1683) xi. §12. 90 The many attendances the creditor is put to in pursuit of it.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 12 The King in council your attendance waits.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II i. i. 5 Charles..sent to require his son's attendance at Brussels.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 401 The Catholics withdrew from attendance at the national worship.

1885 N.E.D. at Attendance Mod. The number of attendances recorded in the School Register.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. iii. §5. 220 Compelled..to put the matter in hazard without further attendance.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 71 Spring-woods..have been let rest till..thirty years, and have prov'd highly worth the attendance.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlvi. 93 That which causeth bitternes in death is the languishing attendance and expectation thereof.

a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 164 Resting..in attendance of their Lords Plate, not yet come.

1607 S. Hieron Good Fight in Wks. (1620) I. 228 Two or three of her attendance looked out.

1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 44 The Venetian ambassadors, with an attendance of about 40 noblemen.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 226 He..had so many wants, that a numerous attendance was scarcely able to supply them.

1835 J. Wilson in Life (1878) iii. 89 The attendance at the stated services of the mission is greater than..ever.

1882 Daily Tel. 17 May Greatly increased interest in the match should be represented..by a greatly increased attendance.

1969 Hansard Commons 7 July (Written Answers) 165 The Government's proposals to introduce a new attendance allowance for the very severely disabled, including housewives.

1972 Whitaker's Almanack 498/2 The Act of 1970..provides for the payment of a tax-free attendance allowance to the severely disabled... The full rate..is paid to those in need of a great deal of attention or supervision both by day and by night.

1986 Times 2 Apr. 11/3 I'm a carer. I get a £20-a-week attendance allowance.

1948 Act 11 & 12 Geo. VI c. 58 §19(1) Where a court..has power..to impose imprisonment on a person who is not less than twelve but under twenty-one..the court may, if it has been notified..that an attendance centre is available..order him to attend at such a centre..for such number of hours..as may be..specified.

1965 Listener 27 May 793/2 The suggestion is that ‘treatment’ may be carried out..by an improved Probation Service, attendance centres, or out-patients departments of mental hospitals.

1979 Daily Tel. 2 Nov. 10 Experiments with mixed attendance centres for offenders aged 14 to 16, are planned by the Government.

1982 Criminal Justice Act c. 48 §16(2) In this Act ‘attendance centre’ means a place at which offenders under 21 years of age may be required to attend and be given under supervision appropriate occupation or instruction.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 June 1/1 A blind eye..should be an indispensable qualification in an attendance officer.