What is to be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott called?
assist — To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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