AT'ABAL, noun A kettle drum; a kind of tabor.

ATAC'AMITE, noun A muriate of copper

AT'AGAS, noun The red cock or moor-game.

ATAMAS'CO, noun A species of lily of the genus Amaryllis.

AT'ARAXY, noun [Gr. of a priv. and tumult.]

Calmness of mind; a term used by the stoics and skeptics to denote a freedom from the emotions which proceed from vanity and self-conceit.

ATAX'Y, noun [Gr. priv. and order.]

Want of order; disturbance; irregularity in the functions of the body, or in the crises and paroxysms of disease.

ATCHE, noun In Turkey, a small silver coin, value about six or seven mills.

ATE, The preterite of eat, which see.

ATE, noun a'ty. [Gr. mischief; to hurt. ate is a personification of evil, mischief or malice.]

In pagan mythology, the goddess of mischief, who was cast down from heaven by Jupiter.

ATEL'LAN, adjective Relating to the dramas at Atella in Italy.

ATEL'LAN, noun A dramatic representation, satirical or licentious.

ATEMP'OGIUSTO, [Latin in tempore, justo.]

A direction in music, which signifies to sing or play in an equal, true or just time.

ATHANA'SIAN, adjective Pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, in the fourth century. The athanasian creed is a formulary, confession or exposition of faith, supposed formerly to have been drawn up by Athanasius, but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles. It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith.

ATH'ANOR, noun [Heb. thanor, an oven or furnace.]

A digesting furnace, formerly used in chimical operations, so constructed as to maintain a uniform and durable heat. It is a furnace, with a lateral tower close on all sides, which is to be filled with fuel. As the fuel below is consumed, that in the tower falls down to supply its place.

A'THEISM, noun The disbelief of the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being.

Atheism is a ferocious system that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us, to awaken tenderness.

A'THEIST, noun [Gr. of a priv. and God.]

One who disbelieves the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being.

A'THEIST, adjective Atheistical; disbelieving or denying the being of a Supreme God.

ATHEIST'IC,

ATHEIST'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to atheism.

2. Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious, applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.

3. Implying or containing atheism; applied to things, as, atheistic doctrines or opinions.

ATHEIST'ICAL, a.

ATHEIST'ICALLY, adverb In an atheistic manner; impiously.

ATHEIST'ICALNESS, noun The quality of being atheistical.

A'THEIZE, verb intransitive To discourse an an atheist. [Not used.]

ATHEL, ADEL or AETHEL, nobel of illustrious birth.

ATHE'NIAN, adjective [from Athens.] Pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Attica in Greece.

ATHE'NIAN, noun A native or inhabitant of Athens.

ATHEOLO'GIAN, noun One who is opposed to a theologian.

ATHEOL'OGY, noun atheism. [Not in use.]

A'THEOUS, adjective Atheistic; impious. [Not used.]

ATHERI'NA, noun a genus of fishes of the abdominal order. The characters are, the upper jaw is rather flat, the rays of the gill membrane are six, and the side belt or line shines like silver. There are four species; the best known is the Hepsetus, very abundant in the Mediterranean, where it is caught in large quantities.

ATH'ERINE,

ATHERO'MA,

ATHERO'MATOUS, adjective Pertaining to or resembling an atherome; having the qualities of an atherome.

ATHERO'MA,

ATH'EROME, noun [Gr. from pap.]

An encysted tumor, without pain or discoloration of the skin, containing matter like pap, intermixed with hard stony particles; easily cured by incision.

ATHIRST', adjective athrust'. [a and thirst. See Thirst.]

1. Thirsty; wanting drink.

2. Having a keen appetite or desire.

He had a soul athirst for knowledge.

ATHLE'TE, noun [See Athletic.] A contender for victory.

ATHLET'IC, adjective [Gr.; Latin athleta, a wrestler; from strife, contest.]

1. Belonging to wrestling, boxing, running and other exercises and sports, which were practiced by the ancients, usually called the athletic games. Hence,

2. Strong; lusty; robust; vigorous. An athletic body or constitution is one fitted for vigorous exertions.

ATHWART', preposition [a and thwart. See Thwart.]

1. Across; from side to side; transverse; as athwart the path.

2. In marine language, across the line of a ship's course; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.

ATHWART hause, is the situation of a ship when she lies across the stem of another, whether near, or at some distance.

ATHWART the fore foot, is a phrase applied to the flight of a cannon ball, across another ship's course, ahead, as a signal for her to bring to.

ATHWART ships, reaching across the ship from side to side, or in that direction.

ATHWART', adverb In a manner to cross and perplex; crossly; wrong; wrongfully.

ATILT', adverb [a and tilt. See Tilt.]

1. In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action of a man making a thrust; as, to stand or run atilt

2. In the manner of a cask tilted, or with one end raised.

AT'IMY, noun [Gr. honor.]

In ancient Greece, disgrace; exclusion from office or magistracy, by some disqualifying act or decree.

ATLANTE'AN, adjective

1. Pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk and overwhelmed by the ocean.

2. Pertaining to Atlas; resembling Atlas.

ATLAN'TIAN,

ATLAN'TIC, adjective [from Atlas or Atlantis.]

Pertaining to that division of the ocean, which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west.

ATLAN'TIC, noun The ocean, or that part of the ocean, which is between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west.

ATLAN'TIC, a. [from Atlas or Atlantis.]

ATLAN'TIC, n. The ocean, or that part of the ocean, which is between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west.

ATLAN'TICA,

ATLAN'TIDES, noun A name given to the Pleiades or seven stars, which were feigned to be the daughters of Atlas, a king of Mauritania, or of his brother, Hesperus, who were translated to heaven.

ATLAN'TIS, noun A fictitious philosophical commonwealth of Lord Bacon, or the piece describing it; composed in the manner of More's Utopia, and Campanella's City of the Sun. One part of the work is finished, in which the author has described a college, founded for the study of Nature, under the name of Solomon's House. The model of a commonwealth was never executed.

ATLAN'TIDES, n. A name given to the Pleiades or seven stars, which were feigned to be the daughters of Atlas, a king of Mauritania, or of his brother, Hesperus, who were translated to heaven.

ATLAN'TIS, noun An isle mentioned by the ancients, situated west of Gades, or Cadiz, on the strait of Gibraltar. The poets mention two isles and call them Hesperides, western isles, and Elysian fields. Authors are not agreed whether these isles were the Canaries, or some other isles, or the continent of America.

AT'LAS, noun

1. A collection of maps in a volume; supposed to be so called from a picture of mount atlas supporting the heavens, prefixed to some collection.

2. A large square folio, resembling a volume of maps.

3. The supporters of a building.

4. A silk satin, or stuff, manufactured in the east, with admirable ingenuity. Atlasses are plain, striped, or flowered; but they have not the fine gloss and luster of some French silks.

5. The first vertebra of the neck.

6. A term applied to paper, as atlas fine.

ATMOM'ETER, noun [Gr. vapor, and to measure.]

An instrument to measure the quantity of exhalation from a humid surface in a given time; an evaporometer.

AT'MOSPHERE, noun [Gr. vapor, and a sphere.

The whole mass of fluid, consisting of air, aqueous and other vapors, surrounding the earth.

ATMOSPHER'IC,

ATMOSPHER'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the atmosphere; as atmospheric air or vapors.

2. Dependent on the atmosphere.

I am an atmospheric creature.

ATMOSPHER'ICAL, a.

AT'OM, noun [Gr.; Latin atomus; from not, and to cut.]

1. A particle of matter so minute as to admit of no division. Atoms are conceived to be the first principles or component parts of all bodies.

2. The ultimate or smallest component part of a body.

3. Any thing extremely small.

ATOM'IC,

ATOM'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to atoms; consisting of atoms; extremely minute.

The atomical philosophy, said to be broached by Moschus, before the Trojan war, and cultivated by Epicurus, teaches that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, by which all things were formed, without the aid of a supreme intelligent Being.

The atomic theory, in chimistry, or the doctrine of definite proportions, teaches that all chimical combinations take place between the ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, and that these unite either atom with atom, or in proportions expressed by some simple multiple of the number of atoms.

AT'OMISM, noun The doctrine of atoms.

AT'OMIST, noun One who holds to the atomical philosophy.

AT'OMY, noun A word used by Shakespeare for atom; also an abbreviation of anatomy.

ATO'NE, adverb [at and one.] At one; together.

ATO'NE, verb intransitive [Supposed to be compounded of at and one. Latin ad and unus, unio.]

1. To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.

He and Aufidus can no more atone

Than violentest contrariety.

[This sense is obsolete.]

2. To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, amends or satisfaction for an offense or a crime, by which reconciliation is procured between the offended and offending parties.

The murderer fell and blood atoned for blood.

By what propitiation shall I atone for my former gravity.

The life of a slave was deemed to be of so little value, that a very slight compensation atoned for taking it away.

3. To atone for, to make compensation or amends.

This evil was atoned for by the good effects of the study of the practical physics of Aristotle.

The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure.

ATO'NE, verb transitive

1. To expiate; to answer or make satisfaction for.

or each atone his guilty love with life.

2. To reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Not now used.]

ATO'NED, participle passive Expiated; appeased; reconciled.

ATO'NEMENT, noun

1. Agreement; concord; reconciliation, after enmity or controversy. Romans 5:11.

Between the Duke of Glo'ster and your brothers.

2. Expiation; satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing or suffering that which is received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; with for.

And Moses said to Aaron, go to the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make an atonement for thyself and for the people. Leviticus 9:7.

When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others not to fall into the like.

The Phocians behaved with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.

3. In theology, the expiation of sin made by the obedience and personal sufferings of Christ.

ATO'NER, noun He who makes atonement.

ATON'IC, adjective Relaxed; debilitated.

ATO'NING, participle present tense

1. Reconciling. obsolete

2. Making amends, or satisfaction.

AT'ONY, noun [Gr. defect, of a priv. and tone, from to stretch.]

Debility; relaxation; a want of tone or tension; defect of muscular power; palsy.

ATOP', adverb [a and top. See Top.] On or at the top.

ATRABILA'RIAN,

ATRABILA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin atra bilis, black bile.]

Affected with melancholy, which the ancients attributed to the bile; replete with black bile.

ATRABILA'RIOUS, a. [L. atra bilis, black bile.]

ATRABILA'RIOUSNESS, noun The state of being melancholy, or affected with disordered bile.

ATRAMENT'AL,

ATRAMENTA'RIOUS, adjective Like ink; suitable for making ink. The sulphate of iron, or green copperas, is called atramentarious, as being the material of ink.

ATRAMENTA'RIOUS, a. Like ink; suitable for making ink. The sulphate of iron, or green copperas, is called atramentarious, as being the material of ink.

ATRAMENT'OUS, adjective [Latin atramentum, ink, after ater, black.]

Inky; black like ink.

ATRIP', adverb [a and trip. See Trip.]

In nautical language, the anchor is atrip when drawn out of the ground in a perpendicular direction. The topsails are atrip when they are hoisted to the top of the mast, or as high as possible.

ATRO'CIOUS, adjective [Latin atrox, trux, fierce, cruel.]

1. Extremely hainous, criminal or cruel; enormous; outrageous; as atrocious guilt or offense.

2. Very grievous; violent; as atrocious distempers.

ATRO'CIOUSLY, adverb In an atrocious manner; with enormous cruelty or guilt.

ATRO'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being enormously criminal or cruel.

ATROC'ITY, noun Enormous wickedness; extreme hainousness or cruelty; as the atrocity of murder.

AT'ROPHY, noun [Gr. a priv. and to nourish.]

A consumption or wasting of the flesh, with loss of strength, without any sensible cause or hectic fever; a wasting from defect of nourishment.

ATRO'PIA, noun A new vegetable alkali extracted from the atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade. It is white, brilliant and crystallizes in long needles.

ATTACH', verb transitive [Gr.; Latin tango, for tago, Eng. tack; etc. See attack and Tack.

1. To take by legal authority; to arrest the person by writ, to answer for a debt; applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being never used for the arrest of a criminal. It is applied also to the taking of goods and real estate by an officer, by virtue of a writ or precept, to hold the same to satisfy a judgment to be rendered in the suit.

2. To take, seize and lay hold on, by moral force, as by affection or interest; to win the heart; to fasten or bind by moral influence; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

3. To make to adhere; to tie, bind or fasten; as, to attach substances by any glutinous matter; to attach one thing to another by a string.

ATTACH'ABLE, adjective That may be legally attached; liable to be taken by writ or precept.

ATTACH'ED, participle passive Taken by writ or precept; drawn to and fixed, or united by affection or interest.

ATTACH'ING, participle present tense Taking or seizing by commandment or writ; drawing to, and fixing by influence; winning the affections.

ATTACH'MENT, noun

1. A taking of the person, goods or estate by a writ or precept in a civil action, to secure a debt or demand.

2. A writ directing the person or estate of a person to be taken, to secure his appearance before a court. In England, the first notice to appear in court is by summons; and if the defendant disobeys this monition, a writ of attachment issues, commanding the sheriff to attach him, by taking gage, or security in goods, which he forfeits by non-appearance, or by making him find safe pledges or sureties for his appearance. But in trespasses, an attachment is more generally the first process, and in some states, the writ of attachment issues at first against the property or person of the defendant. In Connecticut, this writ issues against the person, goods or land, in the first instance, commanding to take the goods and estate of the defendant, if to be found; or otherwise, to take his body. In England, witnesses not appearing upon a summons, may be taken by attachment; a process called with us a capias. Attachments also issue against persons for contempt of court. The court of attachments, in England, is held before the verderors of the forest, to attach and try offenders against vert and vension.

Foreign attachment is the taking of the money or goods of a debtor in the hands of a stranger; as when the debtor is not within the jurisdiction of the court or has absconded. Any person who has goods or effects of a debtor, is considered in law as the agent, attorney, factor or trustee of the debtor; and an attachment served on such person binds the property in his hands to respond the judgment against the debtor.

3. Close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; any passion or affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

ATTACK', verb intransitive [Heb. to thrust, to drive, to strike.

1. To assault; to fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms. It is the appropriate word for the commencing act of hostility between armies and navies.

2. To fall upon, with unfriendly words or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by satire, calumny or criticism; as, to attack a man or his opinions in a pamphlet.

ATTACK', noun An onset; first invasion; a falling on, with force or violence, or with calumny, satire or criticism.

ATTACK'ED, participle passive Assaulted; invaded; fallen on by force or enmity.

ATTACK'ER, noun One who assaults or invades.

ATTACK'ING, participle present tense Assaulting; invading; falling on with force, calumny or criticism.

ATTACOT'TIC, adjective Pertaining to the Attacotti, a tribe of ancient Britons, allies of the Scots.

AT'TAGEN, noun A beautiful fowl, resembling the pheasant, with a short black bill and a fine crest of yellow feathers, variegated with black and white spots, found in the mountains of Sicily.

ATTA'IN, verb intransitive [Latin attingo, to reach, come to or overtake; ad and tango, to touch, reach or strike; that is, to thrust, urge or push to. it has no connection with Latin attineo. See Class.]

1. To reach; to come to or arrive at, by motion, bodily exertion, or efforts towards a place or object.

If by any means they might attain to Phenice. Acts 28:1.

2. To reach; to come to or arrive at, by an effort of mind.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain to it. Psalms 139:6.

Regularly this verb should be always followed by to; the omission of to, and the use of the verb, in a transitive sense, may have originated in mistake, from the opinion that the verb is from the Latin attineo, and equivalent to obtain.

ATTA'IN, verb transitive

1. To gain; to compass; to achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; without to following.

Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means?

This use of the verb is now established; but in strictness to is here implied; attain to the end. The real sense, as in the intransitive use of the verb is, to reach or come to the end or purpose in view. This word always implies an effort towards an object. Hence it is not synonymous with obtain and procure, which do not necessarily imply such effort. We procure or obtain a thing by purchase or loan, and we obtain by inheritance, but we do not attain it by such means. An inattention to this distinction has led good authors into great mistakes in the use of this word.

2. To reach or come to a place or object by progression or motion.

But ere such tidings shall his ears attain

Canaan he now attains.

3. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

ATTA'INABLE, adjective That may be attained; that may be reached by efforts of the mind or body; that may be compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object; as, perfection is not attainable in this life. From an inattention to the true sense of this word, as explained under attain, authors have very improperly used this word for obtainable, procurable; as in the following passages. 'The kind and quality of food and liquor; the species of habitation, furniture and clothing to which the common people of each country are habituated, must be attainable with ease and certainty.' 'Gen. Howe would not permit them to be purchased in Philadelphia, and they (clothes and blankets) were not attainable in the country.' Marshall's Life of Washington, 3, 428. Each of these words should be obtainable.

ATTA'INABLENESS, noun The quality of being attainable.

ATTA'INDER, noun [Latin ad and tingo, to stain; Gr. See Tinge.]

1. Literally a staining, corruption, or rendering impure; a corruption of blood. Hence,

2. The judgment of death, or sentence of a competent tribunal upon a person convicted of treason or felony, which judgment attaints, taints or corrupts his blood, so that he can no longer inherit lands. The consequences of this judgment are, forfeiture of lands, tenements and hereditaments, loss of reputation, and disqualification to be a witness in any court of law. A statute of Parliament attainting a criminal, is called an act of attainder

Upon the thorough demonstration of which guilt by legal attainder the feudal covenant is broken.

3. The act of attainting.

An act was made for the attainder of several persons.

Note. by the constitution of the United States, no crime words an attainder

ATTA'INMENT, noun

1. The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence the act of obtaining by efforts; as the attainment of excellence.

2. That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquisition; as, a man of great attainments.

ATTA'INT, verb transitive [See Attainder.]

1. To taint or corrupt; to extinguish the pure or inheritable blood of a person found guilty of treason or felony, by confession, battle, or verdict, and consequent sentence of death, or by special act of Parliament.

No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses, etc.

2. To taint, as the credit of jurors, convicted of giving a false verdict. This is done by special writ of attaint The conviction of such a crime attaints the reputation of jurors, and renders them infamous.

3. To disgrace; to cloud with infamy; to stain.

4. To taint or corrupt.

ATTA'INT, noun

1. A stain, spot or taint. [See taint.]

2. Any thing injurious; that which impairs. obsolete

3. A blow or wound on the hinder feet of a horse.

4. A writ which lies after judgment against a jury for giving a false verdict in any court of record.

ATTA'INTED, participle passive Stained; corrupted; rendered infamous; rendered incapable of inheriting.

ATTA'INTING, participle present tense Staining; corrupting; rendering infamous by judicial act; depriving of inheritable blood.

ATTA'INTMENT, noun The being attainted.

ATTA'INTURE, noun A staining or rendering infamous; reproach; imputation.

AT'TAR, noun The essential oil or essence of roses.

OT'TER, noun [Latin lutra.]

A quadruped of the genus Mustela, nearly two feet in length, of a brown color, with short legs, amphibious and feeding on fish. It burrows in the banks of rivers and ponds, and its toes being webbed, it swims with great rapidity. There are several other species, of which the sea otter is the largest, being about three feet in length.

OT'TER, noun The name of a coloring substance.

ATTASK', verb transitive To task; to tax. [Not used. See Task.]

ATTA'STE, verb transitive To taste. [Not used. See Taste.]

ATTEM'PER, verb transitive [Latin attempero, of ad and tempero, to temper, mix, or moderate. See Temper.]

1. To reduce, modify or moderate by mixture; as, to attemper heat by a cooling mixture, or spirit by diluting it with water.

2. To soften, mollify or moderate; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

3. To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.

4. To accommodate; to fit or make suitable.

Arts attempered to the lyre.

ATTEM'PERANCE, noun Temperance. [Not used.]

ATTEM'PERATE, adjective [Latin attemperatus.]

Tempered; proportioned; suited.

Hope must be proportioned and attemperate to the promise.

ATTEM'PERATE, verb transitive To attemper. [Not in use.]

ATTEM'PERED, participle present tense Reduced in quality; moderated; softened; well mixed; suited.

ATTEM'PERING, participle present tense Moderating in quality; softening; mixing in due proportion; making suitable.

ATTEM'PERLY, adverb In a temperate manner. [Not in use.]

ATTEMPT', verb transitive [Latin attento, to attempt of ad and tento, to try; tento is from the same root as tendo, to strain; Gr. Hence, the literal sense is to strain, urge, stretch.]

1. To make an effort to effect some object; to make trial or experiment; to try; to endeavor; to use exertion for any purpose; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

2. To attack; to make an effort upon; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

This verb is not always followed by an object, and appears to be intransitive; but some object is understood, or a verb in the infinitive follows in the place of an object; as, he attempted to speak.

ATTEMPT', noun An essay, trial or endeavor; an attack; or an effort to gain a point.

ATTEMPT'ABLE, adjective That may be attempted, tried or attacked; liable to an attempt, or attack.

ATTEMPT'ED, participle passive Essayed; tried; attacked.

ATTEMPT'ER, noun One who attempts, or attacks.

ATTEMPT'ING, participle present tense Trying; essaying; making an effort to gain a point; attacking.

ATTEND', verb transitive [Latin attendo; ad and tendo, to stretch, to tend. See Tend.]

1. To go with, or accompany, as a companion, minister or servant.

2. To be present; to accompany or be united to; as a cold attended with fever.

3. To be present for some duty, implying charge or oversight; to wait on; as, the physician or the nurse attends the sick.

4. To be present in business; to be in company from curiosity, or from some connection in affairs; as, lawyers or spectators attend a court.

5. To be consequent to, from connection of cause; as, a measure attended with ill effects.

6. To await; to remain, abide or be in store for; as, happiness or misery attends us after death.

7. To wait for; to lie in wait.

8. To wait or stay for.

Three days I promised to attend my doom.

9. To accompany with solicitude; to regard.

Their hunger thus appeased, their care attends.

The doubtful fortune of their absent friends.

10. To regard; to fix the mind upon.

The pilot doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger.

This is not now a legitimate sense. To express this idea, we now use the verb intransitively, with to, attend to.

11. To expect. [Not in use.]

ATTEND', verb intransitive

1. To listen; to regard with attention; followed by to.

ATTEND to the voice of my supplication. Psalms 86:6.

Hence much used in the imperative, attend!

2. To regard with observation, and correspondent practice.

My son, attend to my words.

Hence, to regard with compliance.

He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Psalms 66:19.

3. To fix the attention upon, as an object of pursuit; to be busy or engaged in; as, to attend to the study of the scriptures.

4. To wait on; to accompany or be present, in pursuance of duty; with on or upon; as, to attend upon a committee; to attend upon business. Hence,

5. To wait on, in service or worship; to serve.

That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

1 Corinthians 7:35.

6. To stay; to delay. obsolete

For this perfection she must yet attend

Till to her maker she espoused be.

7. To wait; to be within call.

ATTEND'ANCE, noun

1. The act of waiting on, or serving.

Of which no man gave attendance at the altar. Hebrews 7:13.

2. A waiting on; a being present on business of any kind; as, the attendance of witnesses of persons in court; attendance of members of the legislature.

3. Service; ministry.

Receive attendance

4. The persons attending; a train; a retinue.

5. Attention; regard; careful application of mind.

Give attendance to reading. 1 Timothy 4:13.

6. Expectation. obsolete

ATTEND'ANT, adjective

1. Accompanying; being present, or in the train.

Other suns with their attendant moons.

2. Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.

3. In law, depending on or owing service to; as, the wife attendant to the heir.

ATTEND'ANT, noun

1. One who attends or accompanies, in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, minister or servant; one who belongs to the train.

2. One who is present; as an attendant at or upon a meeting.

3. One who owes service to or depends on another.

4. That which accompanies or is consequent to.

A love of fame, the attendant of noble spirits.

Shame is the attendant of vice.

ATTEND'ED, participle passive Accompanied; having attendants; served; waited on.

ATTEND'ER, noun One who attends; a companion; an associate. [Little used.]

ATTEND'ING, participle present tense Going with; accompanying; waiting on; superintending or taking care of; being present; immediately consequent to; serving; listening; regarding with care.

ATTENT', adjective Attentive. 2 Chronicles 6:40.

ATTENT'ATES, noun Proceedings in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed.

ATTEN'TION, noun

1. The act of attending or heeding; the due application of the ear to sounds, or of the mind to objects presented to its contemplation. [Literally, a stretching towards.

They say the tongues of dying men

Enforce attention like deep harmony.

2. Act of civility, or courtesy; as attention to a stranger.

ATTENT'IVE, adjective

Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care. It is applied to the senses of hearing and seeing, as an attentive ear or eye; to the application of the mind, as in contemplation; or to the application of the mind, together with the senses abovementioned, as when a person is attentive to the words, the manner and matter of a speaker at the same time.

ATTENT'IVELY, adverb Heedfully; carefully; with fixed attention.

ATTENT'IVENESS, noun The state of being attentive; heedfulness; attention.

ATTEN'UANT, adjective [See Attenuate.]

Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid.

ATTEN'UANT, noun A medicine which thins the humors, subtilizes their parts, dissolves viscidity, and disposes the fluids to motion, circulation and secretion; a diluent.

ATTEN'UATE, verb transitive [Latin attenuo, of ad and tenuo, to make thin; tenuis; Eng. thin, which see.]

1. To make thin or less consistent; to subtilize or break the humors of the body into finer parts; to render less viscid; opposed to condense, incrassate or thicken.

2. To comminute; to break or wear solid substances into finer or very minute parts.

This uninterrupted motion must attenuate and wear away the hardest rocks.

3. To make slender; to reduce in thickness.

ATTEN'UATE, adjective Made thin, or less viscid; made slender.

ATTEN'UATED, participle present tense Made thin or less viscid; comminuted; made slender. In botany, growing slender towards the point.

ATTEN'UATING, participle passive Making thin, as fluids; making fine, as solid substances; making slender or lean.

ATTENUA'TION, noun

1. 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 facilitates the attenuation of these rocks.

3. The act or process of making slender, thin or lean.

AT'TERATE, verb transitive [Latin attero, to wear.]

1. To wear away.

2. To form or accumulate by wearing.

AT'TERATED, participle passive Formed by wearing.

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', 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 genuine; to make a solemn declaration in words or writing, to support a fact; appropriately used the affirmation of persons in their official capacity; as, to attest the truth of a writing; to attest a copy of record. Persons also attest writings by subscribing their names.

2. To bear witness, or support the truth of a fact, by other evidence than words; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.

3. To call to witness; to invoke as conscious.

The sacred streams which heaven's imperial state Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.

ATTEST', noun Witness; testimony; attestation. [Little used.]

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, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing is an attestation

ATTEST'ED, participle passive Proved or supported by testimony, solemn or official; witnessed; supported by evidence.

ATTEST'ING, participle present tense Witnessing; calling to witness; affirming in support of.

ATTEST'OR, noun One who attests.

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 Athenians; attic faith, inviolable faith.

Attic base, a peculiar base used by the ancient architects in the Ionic order, or column; and by Palladio and others, in the Doric.

Attic order, an order of small square pillars at the uppermost extremity of a building. This had its origin in Athens, and was intended to conceal the roof. These pillars should never exceed one third of the length of the order on which they are placed, nor be less than one quarter of it.

Attic story, a story in the upper part of a house, where the windows usually are square.

AT'TIC, noun

1. A small square pillar with its cornice on the uppermost part of a building. Attics properly form the crown of the building, or a finishing for the other orders, when they are used in the structure.

2. An Athenian; an Athenian author.

AT'TICISM, noun

1. 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 to the Athenians.

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.

AT'TICS, noun plural The title of a book in Pausanias, which treats of Attica.

ATTI'RE, verb transitive

To dress; to array; to adorn with elegant or splendid garments.

With the linen miter shall Aaron be attired. Leviticus 16:4.

ATTI'RE, noun

1. Dress; clothes; habit; but appropriately, ornamental dress.

Can a bride forget her attire Jeremiah 2:32.

2. The horns of a deer.

3. In botany, the generative parts of plants. florid attire called thrums or suits, as in the flowers of marygold or tansy, consists of two or three parts, of which the outer part is the floret. semiform attire consists of the chives and apexes. This language is now obsolete.

ATTI'RED, participle passive Dressed; decked with ornaments or attire.

ATTI'RER, noun One who dresses or adorns with attire.

ATTI'RING, participle present tense Dressing; adorning with dress or attire.

ATTI'TLE, verb transitive To entitle. [Not in use.]

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 disposition of the parts as serves to express the action and sentiments of the person represented.

2. Posture; position of things or persons; as, in times of trouble let the prince or a nation preserve a firm attitude

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 ear, the tip of the nose, or the upper eye lid; otherwise called levator and elevator.

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 tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.

ATTORN'EY, noun plural 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 for another; but its sense is now chiefly or wholly restricted to persons who act as substitutes for the persons concerned, in prosecuting and defending actions before courts of justice, or in transacting other business in which legal rights are involved. The word answers to the procurator, (proctor, ) of the civilians.

Attorneys are not admitted to practice in courts until examined, approved, licensed and sworn, by direction of some court; after which they are proper officers of the court.

In G. Britain, and in some of the United States, attorneys are not permitted to be advocates or counsel in the higher courts; this privilege being confined to counsellors and sergeants. In other states, there is no distinction of rank, and attorneys practice in all the courts. And in general sense, the word attorney comprehends counsellors, barristers and serjeants.

In Virginia, the duties of attorney counsellor, conveyancer and advocate, are all performed by the same individual.

An attorney may have general powers to transact business for another; or his powers may be special, or limited to a particular act or acts.

Attorney General is an officer appointed to manage business for the king, the state or public; and his duty, in particular, is to prosecute persons guilty of crimes.

A letter or warrant of attorney is a written authority from one person empowering another to transact business for him.

ATTORN'EY, verb transitive To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. [Not in use.]

ATTORN'EYSHIP, noun The office of an attorney; agency for another.

ATTORN'ING, participle present tense Acknowledging a new lord, or transferring homage and fealty to the purchaser of an estate.

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 homage and service.

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 attract straws, and light substances, by physical laws.

2. To draw to or incline to unite with though some cause may prevent the union; as, the sun is supposed to attract the planets.

3. To draw by influence of a moral kind; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.

4. To engage; as, to attract attention.

ATTRACT', noun Attraction. [Not in use.]

ATTRACTABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being attractable, or of being subject to the law of attraction.

ATTRACT'ABLE, adjective That may be attracted; subject to attraction.

ATTRACT'ED, participle passive Drawn towards; invited; allured; engaged.

ATTRACT'IC,

ATTRACT'ICAL, adjective Having power to draw to. [Not used.]

ATTRACT'ICAL, a. Having power to draw to. [Not used.]

ATTRACT'ILE, adjective That has power to attract.

ATTRACT'ING, participle present tense Drawing to or towards; inviting; alluring; engaging.

ATTRACT'INGLY, adverb In an attracting manner.

ATTRAC'TION, noun

1. The power in bodies which is supposed to draw them together; or the tendency or principle which inclines them to unite or cohere; called by Copernicus, appetence.

This power, principle or tendency in bodies to unite, is distinguished by philosophers into attraction of gravity or gravitation, which extends to a sensible distance, such as the tendency of the planets to the sun, or of a stone, when raised in the air, to fall to the earth, and of which kind is the attraction of magnetism, and of electricity; and into attraction of cohesion, or that tendency which is manifested between small particles of matter, at insensible distances, or near the point of contact, to unite them in coherence.

The attraction of gravity is supposed to be the great principle which confines the planets in their orbits. Its power or force is directly as the quantity of matter in a body, and inversely as the square of the distances of the attracting bodies.

2. The act of attracting; the effect of the principle of attraction

Attraction may be performed by impulse or other means.

3. The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting or engaging; as the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

Contiguous attraction is that which is exerted between minute particles or atoms, at insensible distances. When this principle unites particles of the same kind, it is called affinity of aggregation, cohesive affinity or cohesion. When it operates on dissimilar particles, producing union, it is distinguished as heterogeneous, and called chimical attraction or affinity.

Elective attraction in chimistry, is otherwise called affinity. It is that power in substances, which elects or selects from a mixture those elements with which they have the strongest tendency to combine.

ATTRACT'IVE, adjective

1. Having the quality of attracting; drawing to; as the attractive force of bodies.

2. Drawing to by moral influence; alluring; inviting; engaging; as the attractive graces.

An attractive undertaking.

ATTRACT'IVELY, adverb With the power of attracting, or drawing to.

ATTRACT'IVENESS, noun The quality of being attractive, or engaging.

ATTRACT'OR, noun The person or thing that attracts.

ATTRA'HENT, adjective [Latin attrahens.] Drawing to; or as a noun, that which draws to.

ATTRAP', verb transitive To clothe; to dress. [Not in use.]

ATTRECTA'TION, noun [Latin attrectatio.] Frequent handling.

ATTRIB'UTABLE, adjective [See attribute.]

That may be ascribed, imputed or attributed; ascribable; imputable; as, the fault is not attributable to the author.

ATTRIB'UTE, verb transitive [Latin attribuo; ad and tribuo, to divide, to bestow, to assign; tribus, a tribe, division or ward. See Tribe.]

1. To allot or attach, in contemplation; to ascribe; to consider as belonging.

We attribute nothing to God, that contains a contradiction.

2. To give as due; to yield as an act of the mind; as, to attribute to God all the glory of redemption.

3. To impute, as to a cause; as, our misfortunes are generally to be attributed to our follies or imprudence.

AT'TRIBUTE, noun

1. That which is attributed; that which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in; as, power and wisdom are attributes of the Supreme Being; or a quality determining something to be after a certain manner; as, extension is an attribute of body.

2. Quality; characteristic disposition; as bravery and generosity in men.

3. A thing belonging to another; an appendant; as the arms of a warrior. In painting and sculpture, a symbol of office or character, added to the principal figure; as a club is the attribute of Hercules.

4. Reputation; honor.

[Not a proper sense of this word.]

ATTRIB'UTED, participle passive Ascribed; yielded as due; imputed.

ATTRIB'UTING, participle present tense Ascribing; yielding or giving as due; imputing.

ATTRIBU'TION, noun The act of attributing, or the quality ascribed; commendation.

ATTRIB'UTIVE, adjective Pertaining to or expressing an attribute.

ATTRIB'UTIVE, noun In grammar, a word significant of an attribute; as an adjective, verb or particle, which is the attribute of a substance.

ATTRI'TE, adjective [Latin attritus, worn, of ad and tero to wear; Gr. See Trite.] worn by rubbing or friction.

[See Trite, which is now generally used.]

ATTRI'TENESS, noun the being much worn.

ATTRI'TION, noun

1. Abrasion; the act of wearing by friction, or rubbing substances together.

the change of aliment is effected by the attrition of the stomach.

2. the state of being worn.

3. with divines, grief for sin arising from fear of punishment; the lowest degree of repentance.

ATTU'NE, verb intransitive [of ad and tune. See tone and Tune.]

1. to make musical.

Vernal airs attune the trembling leaves.

2. To tune, or put in tune; to adjust one sound to another; to make accordant; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

ATTU'NED, participle passive Made musical or harmonious; accommodated in sound.

ATTU'NING, participle present tense Putting in tune; making musical, or accordant in sound.

ATWA'IN, adverb In twain; asunder. obsolete

ATWEE'N, adverb Between. obsolete

ATWIXT', adverb Betwixt. obsolete

ATWO, adverb In two. obsolete