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单词 wait attendance
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to wait attendance
5. In senses 3, 4 the phrases to wait attendance (obsolete), to dance attendance, occur= ‘to attend’; the latter usually with some shade of sarcasm or contempt.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > on a superior
to dance attendance1555
to wait attendancea1593
antechamber1884
1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.viv 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?
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to wait attendance
e. quasi-trans. to wait attendance: to remain in attendance. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > on a superior
to dance attendance1555
to wait attendancea1593
antechamber1884
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)]
followeOE
to stand before ——OE
wait1526
to wait attendancea1593
attenda1616
tenda1616
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C4 Nobles..That waite attendance for a gratious looke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 165.
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