[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. Listening, attentive.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. ii. 167. Like softest Musicke to attending eares.
1793. Southey, Tri. Woman, 119. Hush’d are all sounds, the attending crowd are mute.
1884. Athenæum, 27 Sept., 395/2. Defining a mind as an attending subject.
2. Waiting to do service, ministrant, attendant.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. iii. 231. My Loue, (her Mistres) is a gracious Moone; Shee (an attending Starre).
1720. Pope, Iliad, XXIII. 49. Th’ attending heralds … With kindled flames the tripod-vase surround.
3. Accompanying in a circumstantial relation; closely consequent.
1683. Creech, Lucretius, I. 13, note. Cartes proposes his Ambient attending Circle … to solve the Phenomenon of Motion.
1812. L. Hunt, in Examiner, 12 Oct., 641/1. To lose sight of all attending circumstances.
