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1 definition found 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
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