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Definition of Tended
1. tend [v] - See also: tend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tended
Literary usage of Tended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"Some evidence tended to show that under long- continued practice, considered good
railroading, cars (In "strings" or "cuts") were constantly sent down and ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Under an oak his servants spread a feast 650 Or tended on the offering of an ox,
Whilst women sprinkled all the meats with meal. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"The facts In evidence on the part of the state tended to show that in the latter
part ... The course and effect of the bullet tended to confirm the state's ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"When the intellectual activity previously repressed by the more urgent claims of
social preoccupations tended to revive towards the close of the mediaeval ..."
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