What is to direct speech. [Obs.] Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest. Dryden. Note: The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun called?

address — To direct speech. [Obs.] Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest. Dryden. Note: The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun. (Webster's 1913.)

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