English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Attainable
(a.)
Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the
mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts
directed to the object.
Attainable
(a.)
Obtainable.
Attainableness
(n.)
The quality of being attainable; attainability.
Attainder
(n.)
The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted;
the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person,
consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder.
Attainder
(n.)
A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or
condemnation.
Attained
(imp. & p. p.)
of Attain
Attaining
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Attain
Attainment
(n.)
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or
reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
Attainment
(n.)
That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion;
acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as,
literary and scientific attainments.
Attaint
(v.)
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by
overreaching.
Attaint
(v.)
A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To attain; to get act; to hit.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on
trial for giving a false verdict.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly
resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect
of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable
act.
Attaint
(v.)
An infecting influence.
Attaint
(p. p.)
Attainted; corrupted.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease
or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud
with infamy.
Attaint
(v.)
A touch or hit.