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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Address \Ad*dress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Addressed}; p. pr &
vb n. {Addressing}.] [OE. adressen to raise erect, adorn,
OF adrecier to straighten, address, F. adresser, fr [`a]
(L. ad) + OF drecier F. dresser, to straighten, arrange.
See {Dress}, v.]
1. To aim to direct. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
And this good knight his way with me addrest.
--Spenser.
2. To prepare or make ready. [Obs.]
His foe was soon addressed. --Spenser.
Turnus addressed his men to single fight. --Dryden.
The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the
noise of the bridegroom's coming. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Reflexively: To prepare one's self to apply one's skill
or energies (to some object); to betake.
These men addressed themselves to the task.
--Macaulay.
4. To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic]
Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel.
--Jewel.
5. To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make as
a speech, petition, etc (to any one an audience).
The young hero had addressed his players to him for
his assistance. --Dryden.
6. To direct speech to to make a communication to whether
spoken or written; to apply to by words as by a speech,
petition, etc., to speak to to accost.
Are not your orders to address the senate?
--Addison.
The representatives of the nation addressed the
king. --Swift.
7. To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to
direct and transmit; as he addressed a letter.
8. To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
9. (Com.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as
agent or factor; as the ship was addressed to a merchant
in Baltimore.
{To address one's self to}.
a To prepare one's self for to apply one's self to
b To direct one's speech or discourse to
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
addressed
adj : of mail marked with a destination; "I throw away all mail
addressed to `resident'" [ant: {unaddressed}]
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