different between habitue vs attender

English

Noun

habitue (plural habitues)

1. Alternative spelling of habitué

Anagrams

• Thibeau

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ty/
• Homophones: habituent, habitues

Verb

habitue

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of habituer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of habituer
3. second-person singular imperative of habituer

Portuguese

Verb

habitue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of habituar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of habituar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of habituar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of habituar

English

Etymology

From Middle English attender, attendere, equivalent to attend +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

attender (plural attenders)

1. An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
   • 1850, William Ellis, Alice Ellis, and James Backhouse, The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton, page 305, H. Longstreth

     She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to

   • 1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.

     And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!

   • 1950, Harold Spears, The High School for Today, page 2, American Book Co.

     The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.

   • 2000, Linda Woodhead and Paul Heelas, Religion in Modern Times: An Anthology, page 401, Blackwell Publishing

     If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?

2. An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
   • 1969, University of Melbourne Library: Report, page 1, Melbourne University Press

     Sri C. Rajabather was appointed to assist in the office as typist attender from 7-4-41.

3. (metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
   • 1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: As a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, page 159, Trübner and Co.

     the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender.

   • 1954, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies, page 48, Yale University Press

     Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like

   • 1996 July, Daniel A. Helminiak, The Human Core of Spirituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit, page 53, State University of New York Press

     The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender.

References

• Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• nattered, rattened, reattend, tartened

Interlingua

Verb

attender

1. to wait for

Conjugation