ADDRESS Copy link • ADDRESS 1. accost, Vid: Address one’s self, se parare or se comparare; to anything, ad aliquid (to prepare one’s self for it): aggredi ad aliquid (e.g., ad dicendum, to approach it; set about it). Address a letter to anybody, alicui inscribere epistolam: dare litteras ad aliquem; litteras mittere alicui or ad aliquem (to write to, send a letter to: not scribere ad aliquem). 2. Dexterity, habilitas (dexterity of body): habitus (the dexterity gained by the practice of an art or virtue): ars (dexterity in an art): usus alicujus rei (experience and consequent skill): facultas (the power of doing anything, capacity): ingenium ad aliquid aptum or habile (mental aptitude): ingenii dexteritas, or dexteritas only: to anything, ad aliquid (readiness and cleverness in conduct toward others; worldly wisdom, Liv., 28, 18, and 37, 7, end. In the sense of “dexterity” generally, it is not Latin). Of a letter; direction, praescriptio. Designation by name and place of abode. What is your address? ubi habitas? To pay one’s addresses to, aliquem petere: alicujus amore teneri, captum esse; aliquem in amore habere (to be in love with: cause for effect). Speech, alloquium (address of a persuasive, consolatory, or warning kind. A softaddress, blandum or lene alloquium, Liv.): allocutio (speaking to): appellatio (accosting a man quietly: e.g., to request anything): compellatio (direct address in a speech; rhetorical term): oratio (formal, studied speech): concio (address to a popular or miliary assembly, harangue): sermo (speech of an unpremeditated, conversational kind).