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The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation Milton.

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

reparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company.

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft.

To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.] Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Shak.

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting…

The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

ng; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

ay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve. The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to att…

The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. [Obs.]

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

ounts earthly employments avocations. Fuller. By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

rom; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.] Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.