Wait-upon definition

Not to wait upon a bride is very remiss.

Like other kings, he lived in a beautiful palace and had many officers and servants to wait upon him.

An invitation to the Swedish court was urged upon Descartes, and after much hesitation accepted; a vessel of the royal navy was ordered to wait upon him, and in September 1649 he left Egmond for the north.

Abisares preferred to play a double game and wait upon events.

The people and the Jews remained in a state of civil war, until each side sent an embassy (40) to wait upon the emperor.