Word Finder - attendants

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One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.

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Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.

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A servant or valet.

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A visitor or caller.

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That which accompanies or follows.

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One who owes a duty or service to another.

But the royal attendants did not heed the animal's ill temper.

The assassin was at once killed by the attendants who rushed in, and Henry died early on the following day.

We caught up to the ambulance at the emergency room entrance just as attendants were removing a stretcher.

In 1906-1907 the percentage (31 6) of attendants to children of school age was twice as large as in 1898-1899.

A large fraction of the Mexican population were set apart as priests or attendants to the services of the gods.

Confident of his strength Frederick entered Germany with a few attendants in the middle of 1235, and his presence had the anticipated effect of quelling the insurrection; Henry was sent a prisoner to Italy and disappeared from history.

They were taking fifty-four hounds, with six hunt attendants and whippers-in.

The attendants then withdrew, and while Henry was reading the letters Clement mortally wounded him with a dagger which had been concealed beneath his cloak.

One of his attendants expressed an apprehension, that the King would get wet.

Skandaalso called Kumara (the youth), Karttikeya, or Subrahmanya (in the south) - the six-headed war-lord of the gods; and Ganese, the lord (or leader) of Siva's troupes of attendants, being at the same time the elephant-headed, paunch-bellied god of wisdom; whilst a third, Kama (Kamadeva) or Kandarpa, the god of love, gets his popular epithet of Ananga," the bodiless,"from his having once, in frolicsome play, tried the power of his arrows upon Siva, whilst engaged in austere practices, when a single glance from the third (forehead) eye of the angry god reduced the mischievous urchin to ashes.

The bath should be brought to the bedside and the patient, wrapped in a sheet, should be lifted into it by two attendants.

Harrison and others identify them with the Satyri (Satyrs), the attendants and companions of Dionysus in his revels, and also with the Centaurs.

They were the constant attendants, both in and out of the house, of the magistrate to whom they were attached.

Ananda entered the Order in the second year of the Buddha's ministry, and became one of his personal attendants, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and being the interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues.

There, according to legend, she saved the new-born Zeus, her sixth child, from being devoured by Kronos by substituting a stone for him and entrusting the infant god to the care of her attendants the Curetes.

These attendants afterwards became the bodyguard of Zeus and the priests of Rhea, and performed ceremonies in her honour.

They rode on mules with gilded bridles, rich saddles and housings, carrying hawks on their wrist, followed by an immense train of attendants.

With the same instrument, he further detected, on the 19th of September 1848, Hyperion, the seventh of Saturn's attendants, and, on the 24th of October 1851, Ariel and Umbriel, the interior moons of Uranus.

In the systematized pantheon these minor sun-gods become attendants that do his service.

Among the miscellaneous body of attendants about the house of a king or noble were many Saxon slaves, in whom there was a regular trade until it was abolished by the action of the church in 1171.

Plutarch observes that the Greeks, though accustomed to the conceptions of the animal attendants of their own gods, were amazed when they found animals worshipped as gods by the Egyptians.

Some days later, however, he was attacked before Granson by the confederate army and suffered a shamful defeat, being compelled to fly with a handful of attendants, and leaving his artillery and an immense booty in the hands of the allies (February 1476).

On the left returning wall is a train of priestly attendants headed by the chief priest and priestess (the latter carrying a lituus), clad in the dress of the deities they serve and facing an altar, behind which is an image of a bull on a pedestal (representing the god); then comes an attendant leading a goat and three rams for sacrifice, followed by more priests with litui or musical instruments, after whom comes a bull bearing on his back the sacred cista (?).

On the lateral walls of the approach we have a similar procession of attendants Leaded by the chief priestess and priest, who pours a libation at the feet of the goddess seated on her throne; while on the right returning wall are fragments of a third procession approaching another draped figure of the goddess on her throne (placed at the angle opposite the bull on the pedestal), the train being again brought up by a bull.

Many people are already used to District Council employed parking attendants who work in off-street car parks.

The front left-hand pew is reserved for your parents and bridal attendants.

All recommendations are for skilled attendants working at the primary level of health care, either at the facility or in the community.

Parking attendants operate to ensure vehicles are parked legally or to issue parking fines.

Hotel porters, hairdressers and cloakroom attendants also expect to be tipped.

All the lavatory attendants I knew were fed up with arguing with people that the story was merely a fairy tale.

Short of falling back upon Livonia, it was the best plan adoptable in the circumstances, but it was rendered abortive by Peter's destruction of Mazepa's capital Baturin, so that when Mazepa joined Charles at Horki, on the 8th of November 1708, it was as a ruined man with little more than 1300 personal attendants (see Mazepa-Koledinsky).

The maharaja Ram Singh, who succeeded his father in 1893, was deprived of power of government in 1895 on the ground of intemperate conduct; and in 1900 was finally deposed for the murder of one of his personal attendants.

Among the most constant attendants were two high-born and high-bred gentlemen, closely bound together by friendship, but of widely different characters and habits - Bennet Langton, distinguished by his skill in Greek literature, by the orthodoxy of his opinions, and by the sanctity of his life, and Topham Beauclerk, renowned for his amours, his knowledge of the gay world, his fastidious taste and his sarcastic wit.

The delivery attendants remove the streaks, give them a twist to facilitate future handling, and place Fr.3.4.

Both Vader and Palpatine are dead; the greater part of their odd, unnatural, retinue of attendants is also dead.

One place to cut back on is the accessories for the bride, groom and their attendants.

Since some brides require attendants to pay for most of their own adornments, inexpensive options will be most appreciated.

This list will give good ideas about where attendants might possible save a few coins.

Bridesmaids and personal attendants are usually honored by the bride with a small gift.

Female attendants might get a jewelry box or picture frame engraved with the couples' name and the wedding date.

Brides and grooms often try to purchase gifts for their attendants to use on the wedding day itself.

In addition to accessories, many couples may choose to give their attendants the champagne glasses used for toasting at the wedding reception.

This online store is chock full of manly gift suggestions for your male attendants.

My husband and I made a trip to the bowling alley followed by the other attendants and a few confused guests.

Instead, appoint your parents and attendants to serve as "surrogate gift grubbers" and spread the word on your behalf.

Looking at a gallery of bridesmaid hairstyle pictures will show any soon-to-be bride that there are many elegant and beautiful options for her attendants.

Giving some guidelines for the style, such as asking each attendant to wear matching hair pins, is fine, but being flexible will keep attendants smiling.

Can it be considered a "one stop shopping" emporium, or will you have to visit different locations to purchase a veil, shoes, accessories, and dresses for the attendants and mothers of the bride and groom?

Jewelry is a meaningful token of appreciation in our society, which is why it is a great idea to consider giving your attendants jewelry as a thank you gift for all they have done for you.

If you are a younger bride, getting pearls for your attendants are a great idea.