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.