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Attentive; heedful. [Archaic] Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer. 2 Chron. vi. 40.

An attempt; an assault. [Obs.] Bacon.

ed; the supposed power or faculty of attending. They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. Shak.

Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.

Attentively. [Obs.] Barrow.

Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

Inattention.

Inattentive; careless.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. "An abstracted scholar." Johnson.

Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Addison.

A turning towards; attention. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen.

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.