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Definition of Addrest
1. address [v] - See also: address
Lexicographical Neighbors of Addrest
Literary usage of Addrest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by RI Historical Society (1908)
"Wheelwright acquainted the House, That he was present when the Nutfield People,
addrest themselves to the Governour and Council at New-Hampshire, ..."
2. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"A DISCOURSE addrest to the Council in favour of archery, as more destructive than
gunnery, written either in the timi.. of Henry VIII. or Edward VI. ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"With soothing speech the stranger she addrest.' Vol. it 37. This passage is
happily translated throughout : but there is a beauty of versification in the ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"It's generally said that his majestie will be addrest at the next sitting of the
parliament to marry again. in hopes of heirs, there being none after the ..."
5. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs by Thomas Percy, John Wesley Hales, Frederick James Furnivall, British Museum (1867)
"If the date given for the Percy folio, about 1620, is right, it contains the
earliest copy known.—WC 12 1C WHEN Phebus addrest himselfe to the west, ..."