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assist

assist is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To lend aid; to help. With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. Milton.
  2. 2.To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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