ATTENUATING
ATTEN'UATING, participle passive Making thin, as fluids; making fine, as solid substances; making slender or lean.
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ATTENUATION
ATTENUA'TION, noun1. The act of making thin, as fluids; as the attenuation of the humors.2. The act of making fine, by comminution, or attrition.The action of the air facilitate...
ATTERATE
AT'TERATE, verb transitive [Latin attero, to wear.]1. To wear away.2. To form or accumulate by wearing.
ATTERATED
AT'TERATED, participle passive Formed by wearing.
ATTERATION
ATTERA'TION, noun The operation of forming land by the wearing of the sea, and the wearing of the earth in one place and deposition of it in another.
ATTEST
ATTEST', verb transitive [Latin attestor; of ad and testor, to affirm or bear witness, from testis. See Testify.]1. To bear witness; to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genu...
ATTESTATION
ATTESTA'TION, noun Testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, ...
ATTESTED
ATTEST'ED, participle passive Proved or supported by testimony, solemn or official; witnessed; supported by evidence.
ATTESTING
ATTEST'ING, participle present tense Witnessing; calling to witness; affirming in support of.
ATTESTOR
ATTEST'OR, noun One who attests.
ATTIC
AT'TIC, adjective [Latin Atticus; Gr.]Pertaining to Attica in Greece, or to its principal city, Athens. Thus, attic wit, attic salt, a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the At...
ATTICISM
AT'TICISM, noun1. The peculiar style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; refined and elegant Greek; concise and elegant expression.2. A particular attachment...
ATTICIZE
AT'TICIZE, verb transitive To conform or make conformable to the language or idiom of Attica.AT'TICIZE, verb intransitive To use atticisms, or the idiom of the Athenians.
ATTICS
AT'TICS, nounplural The title of a book in Pausanias, which treats of Attica.
ATTIRE
ATTI'RE, verb transitiveTo dress; to array; to adorn with elegant or splendid garments.With the linen miter shall Aaron be attired. Leviticus 16:4.ATTI'RE, noun1. Dress; clothes...
ATTIRED
ATTI'RED, participle passive Dressed; decked with ornaments or attire.
ATTIRER
ATTI'RER, noun One who dresses or adorns with attire.
ATTIRING
ATTI'RING, participle present tense Dressing; adorning with dress or attire.
ATTITLE
ATTI'TLE, verb transitive To entitle. [Not in use.]
ATTITUDE
AT'TITUDE, noun [Latin actus, ago.1. In painting and sculpture, the posture or action in which a figure or statue is placed; the gesture of a figure or statue; such a dispositio...
ATTOLLENT
ATTOL'LENT, adjective [Latin attollens, attollo, of ad and tollor, to lift.]Lifting up; raising; as an attollent muscle.ATTOL'LENT, noun a muscle which raises some part, as the ...
ATTORN
ATTORN', verb intransitive [Latin ad and torno.]In the feudal law, to turn, or transfer homage and service from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassels or t...
ATTORNEY
ATTORN'EY, nounplural attorneys.One who is appointed or admitted in the place of another, to manage his matters in law. The word formerly signified any person who did business f...
ATTORNEYSHIP
ATTORN'EYSHIP, noun The office of an attorney; agency for another.
ATTORNING
ATTORN'ING, participle present tense Acknowledging a new lord, or transferring homage and fealty to the purchaser of an estate.
ATTORNMENT
ATTORN'MENT, noun The act of a feudatory, vassal or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his h...
ATTRACT
ATTRACT', verb transitive [Latin attraho, attractus, of ad and trako, to draw. See Drag and Draw.]1. To draw to; to cause to move towards, and unite with; as, electrical bodies ...