Word Finder - addressed

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To prepare oneself.

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To direct speech.

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To aim; to direct.

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To prepare or make ready.

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To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.

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To direct one’s remarks (to someone).

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To clothe or array; to dress.

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• beclothe
• dight
• put on

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To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).

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He addressed some portions of his remarks to his supporters, some to his opponents.

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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.

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To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.

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He addressed a letter.

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To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

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• put the moves on
• romance

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To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.

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The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

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To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.

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To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.

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To refer to a location in computer memory.

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To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

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(of a piece of mail or other communication) Listed with sufficient routing information to reach a destination.

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Having been the audience for an address, speech or presentation.

He nodded and addressed her father.

When he was close enough, Darkyn addressed him.

Not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son's handwriting.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students.

He left a portrait or caractere of himself, addressed to one of his friends.

As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivanovich.

Sobering, Cynthia addressed them.

No. She addressed it to us and said she hates to do it but it's time to stop what we've all been working on for the last nine months.

It was at this time that Virgil addressed 'the famous fourth eclogue to him.

Pierre Dubois, in a pamphlet "De recuperatione Sanctae Terrae," addressed to Edward I.

Just then a man came running into the hall and addressed the Prince after making a low bow.

And now, at a signal from Ozma, the Woggle-Bug arose and addressed the jury.

Interested, he read the message addressed to him.

Eadberht showed considerable independence in his dealings with the church, and his brother Ecgberht, to whom the well-known letter of Bede is addressed, was from 734 to 766 archbishop of York.

On the day of the funeral Peter addressed to Alexius a stern letter of warning and remonstrance, urging him no longer to resemble the slothful servant in the parable, and threatening to cut him off, as though he were a gangrenous swelling, if he did not acquiesce in his father's plans.

Several letters between 1643 and 1649 are addressed to the princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the ejected elector palatine, who lived at The Hague, where her mother maintained the semblance of a royal court.

On the 3rd of January 1565 he declared in an open letter addressed to the metropolitan his intention to abdicate.

In 1646 she accompanied her husband to Minster, where he was sent by Mazarin as chief envoy, and where she charmed the German diplomatists who were making the treaty of Westphalia, and was addressed as the "goddess of peace and concord."

But now that Kutuzov had spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of an old friend.

Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall.

The occasion was the report of Major-General Edwards on the defences of Australia, and Sir Henry addressed the other premiers on the desirability of a federal union for purposes of defence.

The international Conference which met at Constantinople towards the end of 1876 was, indeed, startled by the salvo of guns heralding the promulgation of a constitution, but the demands of the Conference were rejected, in spite of the solemn warnings addressed to the sultan by the Powers; Midhat Pasha, the author of the constitution, was exiled; and soon afterwards his work was suspended, though figuring to this day on the Statute-Book.

In his last illness he was cauterized, and on seeing the burning iron he addressed "brother Fire," reminding him how he had always loved him and asking him to deal kindly with him.

The eighth eclogue of Virgil was addressed to Pollio while engaged in this campaign.

King Humbert addressed to the pope a letter of congratulation upon his election, and received a courteous reply.

On the 15th of June the pope addressed to Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro, secretary of state, a letter reiterating in uncompromising terms the papal claim to the temporal power, and at the end of July Cardinal Rampolla reformulated the same claim in a circular to the papal nuncios abroad.

With the royal sanction a petition was addressed to Sixtus IV.

In a brief epilogue, the apostle justifies himself for having thus addressed the Roman Christians.

Their writings, like those of the apostles, are epistolary; but editions of the apostolic fathers now usually admit also the early Church order known as the Didache, the allegory entitled the Shepherd, and a short anonymous apology addressed to one Diognetus.

Individual Geonim produced valuable works (of which later), but what is perhaps most important from the point of view of the development of Judaism is the literature of their Responsa or answers to questions, chiefly on halakhic matters, addressed to them from various countries.

Henceforward he lived a life of unbroken seclusion at Vignay, his only subsequent public appearance being by means of a memoire which he addressed to the king in 1570 under the title Le But de la guerre et de la paix, ou discours du chancelier l'Hospital pour exhorter Charles IX.

For some little time previously he had been harassed by a suspicion that certain errors had crept into the computations, and accordingly he addressed himself to the task of revision.

The letters addressed by him to Justin were forgeries, and he had not been guilty of any conspiracy.

The first, De Sancta Trinitate, is addressed to Symmachus (Domino Patri Symmacho), and the result of the short discussion, which is of an abstract nature, and deals partly with the ten categories, is that unity is predicated absolutely, or, in regard to the substance of the Deity, trinity is predicated relatively.

The second treatise is addressed to J ohn the deacon (" Ad Joannem Diaconum "), and its subject is " Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus de divinitate substantialiter praedicentur."

Javanese influence is also traceable in the use of three varieties of speech, as in the Javanese language, according to the rank of the people addressed.

Though a busy colliery may send off its product by the train-load to an important town, the wagons will usually be addressed to a number of different consignees at different depots in different parts of the town, and therefore the train will have to be broken up somewhere short of its destination and its trucks rearranged, together with those of other trains similarly constituted, into fresh trains for conveyance to the various depots.

Tooley Street, leading east from Southwark by London Bridge railway station, is well known in connexion with the story of three tailors of Tooley Street, who addressed a petition to parliament opening with the comprehensive expression "We, the people of England."

Against this the Mussulman deputies protested, in a memorandum addressed to the British secretary of state for foreign affairs.

Hamilton's edition of Reid also contains an account of the university of Glasgow and a selection of Reid's letters, chiefly addressed to his Aberdeen friends the Skenes, to Lord Kames, and to Dr James Gregory.

See Horace Walpole, Letters, edited by P. Cunningham (9 vols., London, 1857), many of the letters being addressed to Conway; Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II.

Oldham wrote other satires, notably one "addressed to a friend about to leave the university," which contains a well-known description of the state of slavery of the private chaplain, and another "dissuading from poetry," describing the ingratitude shown to Edmund Spenser, whose ghost is the speaker, to Samuel Butler and to Abraham Cowley.

It was in 1770 that he wrote his famous Lettres sur la liberte du commerce des grains, addressed to the comptroller-general, the abbe Terray.

On his return Bruce addressed himself to the siege of Berwick, a standing menace to Scotland.

The cardinals did not trust themselves across the border; their messengers, however, were courteously received by Bruce, but with a firm refusal to admit the papal bulls into his kingdom because not addressed to him as king.

Pope John, who had excommunicated Bruce, was addressed by the parliament of Arbroath in April 1320 in a letter which compared Bruce to a Joshua or Judas Maccabaeus, who had wrought the salvation of his people, and declared they fought "not for glory, truth or honour, but for that liberty which no virtuous man will survive."

On the 12th of October both potentates addressed an appeal to George III.

How little effect this had, however, is shown by the fact that in 1265 Odo, archbishop of Sens, could do no more than prohibit the obscene excesses of the feast, without abolishing the feast itself; that in 1444 the university of Paris, at the request of certain bishops, addressed a letter condemning it to all cathedral chapters; and that King Charles VII.

The name of Catholic Epistles is given to those letters (two of Peter, three of John, one of James, one of Jude) incorporated in the New Testament which (except 2 and 3 John) are not, like those of St Paul, addressed to particular individuals or churches, but to a larger and more indefinite circle of readers.

A "secret despatch," couched in arrogant and offensive terms, was addressed to the viceroy by Lord Ellenborough, then a member of the Derby administration, which would have justified the viceroy in immediately resigning.