Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AT-TEND'ANT, a.

1. Accompanying; being present, or in the train. Other suns with their attendant moons. – Milton.
2. Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; as, intemperance, with all its attendant evils.
3. In law, depending on or owing service to; as, the wife attendant to the heir. – Cowel.