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Address   /ˈædrˌɛs/  /ədrˈɛs/   Listen
noun
Address  n.  
1.
Act of preparing one's self. (Obs.)
2.
Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
3.
A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
4.
Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
5.
Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
6.
Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
7.
Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
Synonyms: Speech; discourse; harangue; oration; petition; lecture; readiness; ingenuity; tact; adroitness.


verb
Address  v. t.  (past & past part. addressed; pres. part. addressing)  
1.
To aim; to direct. (Obs.) "And this good knight his way with me addrest."
2.
To prepare or make ready. (Obs.) "His foe was soon addressed." "Turnus addressed his men to single fight." "The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming."
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."
4.
To clothe or array; to dress. (Archaic) "Tecla... addressed herself in man's apparel."
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."
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?" "The representatives of the nation addressed the king."
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.
To address the ball (Golf), to take aim at the ball, adjusting the grip on the club, the attitude of the body, etc., to a convenient position.


Address  v. i.  
1.
To prepare one's self. (Obs.) "Let us address to tend on Hector's heels."
2.
To direct speech. (Obs.) "Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest." Note: The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun.





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"Address" Quotes from Famous Books



... There was Insley, whose last three books had been flat failures, and for whom Cutt & Slashem had positively refused to print anything more; but Insley had gone into the country for the summer and nobody knew his address. Then ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
... address to his soldiers, and aroused their enthusiasm to the utmost. He had the advantage of obtaining the services, as chief pilot, of Alaminos, a veteran who had acted as pilot to Columbus on his last voyage, and to Grijalva in his late expedition. Soon after they started they met with a storm, ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... has the most wrinkled, sallow, time-beaten face I ever saw. She is an exceeding well-bred woman, and of agreeable manners; but all her name in the world must, I think, have been acquired by her dexterity and skill in selecting parties, and by her address in rendering them easy with one another.' Ib. p. 244. She heard her say of a gentleman who had lately died:—'It's a very disagreeable thing, I think, when one has just made acquaintance with anybody and likes them, to have them die.' ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... was to carry the day, Mr. Maugham saw that there was grave danger that the final scene might appear an almost ludicrous anticlimax. To obviate this, he made Grace, at the beginning of the act, write a letter of confession, and address it to Claude; so that all through the discussion we had at the back of our mind the question "Will the letter reach his hands? Will the sword of Damocles fall?" This may seem like a leaf from the book of Sardou; but in reality it was a perfectly natural and justified expedient. ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... Attendance as representative of Yale at the Bodleian Tercentenary at Oxford; reception of D.C.L. degree; peculiar feature of it; banquet in Christ Church Hall; failure of my speech. Visit to the University of St. Andrews; Mr. Carnegie's Rectoral address; curious but vain attempts by audience to throw him off his guard; his skill in dealing with them; reception of LL.D. degree. My seventieth birthday, kindness of friends at Berlin and elsewhere; letters from President Roosevelt, Mr. Hay, Secretary of State, and Chancellor von Bulow. My resignation ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White


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