Attest (v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.
Attest (v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke.
Attest (n.) Witness; testimony; attestation.
Attestation (n.) The act of attesting; 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 as a witness, is an attestation.
Attestative (a.) Of the nature of attestation.
Attester (n.) Alt. of Attestor
Attestor (n.) One who attests.
Attestive (a.) Attesting; furnishing evidence.
Attic (a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
Attic (a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
Attic (a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
Attic (a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.
Attical (a.) Attic.
Atticism (n.) A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.
Atticism (n.) The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.
Atticize (v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.
Atticize (v. i.) To side with the Athenians.
Atticize (v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.
Attiguous (a.) Touching; bordering; contiguous.
Attinge (v. t.) To touch lightly.
Attired (imp. & p. p.) of Attire
Attiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attire
Attire (v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
Attire (n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Attire (n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
Attire (n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
Attired (p. p.) Provided with antlers, as a stag.
Attirement (n.) Attire; adornment.
Attirer (n.) One who attires.
Attitude (n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
Attitude (n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.
Attitude (n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.
Attitudinal (a.) Relating to attitude.
Attitudinarian (n.) One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.
Attitudinarianism (n.) A practicing of attitudes; posture making.
Attitudinize (v. i.) To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.
Attitudinizer (n.) One who practices attitudes.
Attle (n.) Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.
Attollent (a.) Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle.
Attonce (adv.) At once; together.
Attone (adv.) See At one.
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.
Attorneys (pl. ) of Attorney
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.
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.
Attracted (imp. & p. p.) of Attract
Attracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attract
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.
Attracter (n.) One who, or that which, attracts.
Attractile (a.) Having power to attract.
Attracting (a.) That attracts.
Attraction (n.) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
Attraction (n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
Attraction (n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
Attraction (n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Attractive (a.) Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
Attractive (a.) Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
Attractive (n.) That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
Attractivity (n.) The quality or degree of attractive power.
Attractor (n.) One who, or that which, attracts.
Attrahent (v. t.) Attracting; drawing; attractive.
Attrahent (n.) That which attracts, as a magnet.
Attrahent (n.) A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.
Attrap (v. t.) To entrap; to insnare.
Attrap (v. t.) To adorn with trapping; to array.
Attrectation (n.) Frequent handling or touching.
Attributable (a.) Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.
Attributed (imp. & p. p.) of Attribute
Attributing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attribute
Attribute (v. t.) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
Attribute (n.) That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
Attribute (n.) Reputation.
Attribute (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
Attribute (n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
Attribution (n.) The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
Attribution (n.) That which is ascribed or attributed.
Attributive (a.) Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.
Attributive (n.) A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.
Attributively (adv.) In an attributive manner.
Attrite (a.) Rubbed; worn by friction.
Attrite (a.) Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.
Attrition (n.) The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
Attrition (n.) The state of being worn.
Attrition (n.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.
Attry (a.) Poisonous; malignant; malicious.
Attuned (imp. & p. p.) of Attune
Attuning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attune
Attune (v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
Attune (v. t.) To arrange fitly; to make accordant.