English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Attorn
(v. t.)
To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord
to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon
the alienation of the estate.
Attorn
(v. t.)
To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has
been granted.
Attorney
(n.)
A substitute; a proxy; an agent.
Attorney
(n.)
One who is legally appointed by another to transact any
business for him; an attorney in fact.
Attorney
(n.)
A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants
in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
Attorney
(v. t.)
To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
Attorney-general
(n.)
The chief law officer of the state, empowered to
act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and
to advise this supreme executive whenever required.
Attorneyism
(n.)
The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
Attorneys
(pl. )
of Attorney
Attorneyship
(n.)
The office or profession of an attorney; agency for
another.
Attornment
(n.)
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 homage and service; the agreement of
a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.
Attract
(v. t.)
To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to
approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion,
separation, or decomposition.
Attract
(v. t.)
To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to
engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as,
to attract admirers.
Attract
(n.)
Attraction.
Attractability
(n.)
The quality or fact of being attractable.
Attractable
(a.)
Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction.
Attracted
(imp. & p. p.)
of Attract
Attracter
(n.)
One who, or that which, attracts.
Attractile
(a.)
Having power to attract.
Attracting
(a.)
That attracts.