† aˈttendment Obs. rare.
[a. OF. atendement waiting, expectation, f. atendre to attend: see -ment. But in sense 1 prob. for entendement, which in early use embraced the sense of attendement also: cf. attend v. IV, and attent.]
1. Sense, meaning. (Cf. double entendre.)
| 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxxiv, Therein was double attendement, He spake but one and yet he mente twayne. |
2. A thing that attends, pl. surroundings.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 372 He passed his daies in tears, and the uncomfortable attendments of hell. |