(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
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These men addressed themselves to the task.
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1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 6, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
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[…] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
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1851 November 13, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: