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Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.

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  1. n. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
  2. n. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
  3. n. Full; crowded; thronged.
  4. n. Often or commonly reported.
  5. a. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.
  6. a. To make full; to fill.
  7. adj. coming at short intervals or habitually
  8. adj. frequently encountered
  9. v. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  10. v. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
  11. 1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government. Swift. 3. Full; crowded; thronged. [Obs.] 'T is Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate. B. Jonson. 4. Often or commonly reported. [Obs.] 'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci. Massinger. 1. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. He frequented the court of Augustus. Dryden. 2. To make full; to fill. [Obs.] With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite. Milton.
  12. j:88/v:12 v. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place a. coming at short intervals or habitually s. frequently encountered;