To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.
To lend aid; to help. With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. Milton.
To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.
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