Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 105
Atramentaceous (a.) Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] -- Derham. Atramental
Atramental (a.) Alt. of Atramentous
Atramentous (a.) Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
Atramentarious (a.) Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.
Compare: Sulphate
Sulphate (n.) 硫酸鹽 [Chemistry] A salt or ester of sulfuric acid, containing the anion SO₄²⁻ or the divalent group —OSO₂O—.
‘It occurs in all kinds of minerals, such as oxides, carbonates, nitrates, sulfates, and phosphates.’
Atrede (v. t.) To surpass in council. [Obs.]
Men may the olde atrenne, but hat atrede. -- Chaucer.
Atrenne (v. t.) To outrun. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Atresia (n.) (Med.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.
Atrial (a.) Of or pertaining to an atrium.
Atrial (a.) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
Atrial (a.) (Specialized) （心臟）前房的 Relating to or happening in an atrium of the heart.
// Premature beats that occur in the atria are called premature atrial contractions.
Atrip (adv.) (Naut.) (a. & adv.)（指錨）剛離水底的（地）；（指帆或帆桁）已揚起的（地） Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.
Atrip (adv.) (Naut.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.
Atrip (adv.) (Naut.) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.
Atrip (a.) (Of an anchor) Just clear of the bottom [syn: aweigh, atrip].
Atria (n. pl. ) of Atrium.
Atrium (n.) (Arch.) 【建】天井前廳；中庭；【解】心房；房 A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
Atrium (n.) (Arch.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
Atrium (n.) (Anat.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.
Compare: Auricle
Auricle (n.) (Biology) (Anatomy)【解】耳廓；【植】（葉）耳；【解】心耳 A structure resembling an ear or ear lobe.
‘Grass leaves often have two auricles at the junction between the leaf sheath and the blade.’
Auricle (n.) (Biology) (Anatomy) ‘Blood passes downward from the auricle to the ventricle.’
Another term for atrium (of the heart).
Auricle (n.) (Biology) (Anatomy) A small muscular flap on the surface of each atrium of the heart.
Atrium (n.) (Zool.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.
Compare: Ascidioidea
Ascidioidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle.
The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.
Atrium (n.) (Anat.) A cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity, in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs, etc.
Atrium (n.) Any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart).
Atrium (n.) The central area in a building; open to the sky.
Atrocha (n.) (Zool.) A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.
Atrocious (a.) 兇暴的；殘酷的；令人震驚的；駭人聽聞的；【口】非常惡劣的，糟透的 Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
Atrocious (a.) Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. -- De Quincey.
Atrocious (a.) Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers. [Obs.] -- Cheyne.
Syn: {Atrocious}, {Flagitious}, {Flagrant}.
Usage: Flagitious points to an act as grossly wicked and vile; as, a flagitious proposal. Flagrant marks the vivid impression made upon the mind by something strikingly wrong or erroneous; as, a flagrant misrepresentation; a flagrant violation of duty. Atrocious represents the act as springing from a violent and savage spirit. If Lord Chatham, instead of saying "the atrocious crime of being a young man," had used either of the other two words, his irony would have lost all its point, in his celebrated reply to Sir Robert Walpole, as reported by Dr. Johnson. -- {A*tro"cious*ly}, adv. -- {A*tro"cious*ness}, n.
Compare: Flagitious
Flagitious (a.) (Formal) 極惡的；殘忍的 (Of a person or their actions) Criminal; villainous.
Compare: Villainous
Villainous (a.) [Z] 惡棍的；惡棍似的；兇惡的；罪惡的；卑鄙可恥的；【口】壞透的；討厭的 Relating to, constituting, or guilty of wicked or criminal behaviour.
‘A villainous plot.’
Villainous (a.) [Informal] Extremely bad or unpleasant.
‘A villainous smell.’
Atrocious (a.) Shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: {atrocious}, {flagitious}, {grievous}, {monstrous}].
Atrocious (a.) Exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: {atrocious}, {abominable}, {awful}, {dreadful}, {painful}, {terrible}, {unspeakable}].
Atrocious (a.) Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious}, {frightful}, {horrifying}, {horrible}, {ugly}].
Atrocities (n. pl. ) of Atrocity
Atrocity (n.) 殘暴；殘酷 [U] ；殘暴的行為 [C] ；【口】庸俗不堪（或使人極不愉快）的事物 [C] Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
Atrocity (n.) An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
The atrocities which attend a victory. -- Macaulay.
Atrocity (n.) The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness].
Atrocity (n.) An act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity].
Atrophic (a.) 萎縮的 Relating to atrophy.
Atrophic (a.) Relating to or characterized by atrophy; "atrophic arthritis".
Atrophied (p. a.) Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.
Atrophy (n.) 【醫】萎縮；發育停止；虛脫；【植】減縮，萎縮 A wasting away from lack of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. -- Milton.
Atrophied (p. p.) of Atrophy
Atrophy (v. t.) (v. i. & v. t.)（使）萎縮，（使）虛脫 To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
Atrophy (v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.
Compare: Dwindle
Dwindle (v.) [No object] (v. i.) 漸漸減少；變小 [（+away）] (v. t.) 使減少；使縮小 Diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength.
‘Traffic has dwindled to a trickle.’
Atrophy (n.) A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy, wasting, wasting away].
Atrophy (n.) Any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) [syn: atrophy, withering].
Atrophy (v.) Undergo atrophy; "Muscles that are not used will atrophy".
Atropia (n.) Same as Atropine.
Atropine (n.) (Chem.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.
Atropine (n.) A poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides.
Atropism (n.) (Med.) A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.
Atropous (a.) (Bot.) Not inverted; orthotropous.
Atrous (a.) [L. ater.] Coal-black; very black.
Atrypa (n.) (Paleon.) A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.
Attabal (n.) See Atabal.
Attacca () (Mus.) Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.
Attached (imp. & p. p.) of Attach
Attaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attach
Attach (n.) An attachment. [Obs.] -- Pope.
Attach (v. t.) 裝上，貼上，繫上 [（+to）]；使依附；使附屬 [（+to）] ； （與 oneself 連用）使參加；使附著 [（+to）] To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. -- Paley.
A huge stone to which the cable was attached. -- Macaulay.
Attach (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
Attach (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
Incapable of attaching a sensible man. -- Miss Austen.
God . . . by various ties attaches man to man. -- Cowper.
Attach (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
Top this treasure a curse is attached. -- Bayard Taylor.
Attach (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. -- Miss Yonge.
{Attached column} (Arch.) A column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
Syn: To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin; annex; append; win; gain over; conciliate.
Attach (v. i.) 附屬；附加 [（+to）]；歸屬 [（+to）]；伴隨 [（+to）] To adhere; to be attached.
The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. -- Brougham.
Attach (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. -- Cooley.
Attach (v.) Cause to be attached [ant: {detach}].
Attach (v.) Be attached; be in contact with.
Attach (v.) Become attached; "The spider's thread attached to the window sill" [ant: {come away}, {come off}, {detach}].
Attach (v.) Create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: {bind}, {tie}, {attach}, {bond}].
Attach (v.) Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" [syn: {impound}, {attach}, {sequester}, {confiscate}, {seize}].
Attachable (a.) Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
Attachable (a.) Capable of being fastened or added to something else; "a handle attachable by two bolts" [ant: detachable].
Attache (n.) 【法】使館館員；隨員；專員 One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
Attachment (n.) 連接；安裝；附著 [U] [（+to）]；附屬物；附件；附加裝置 [C] [（+to/ for）]；連接物（如繩、帶、扣等）[C] The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.
Attachment (n.) That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history. -- I. Taylor.
Attachment (n.) Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).
Attachment (n.) (Giv. Law) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.
Attachment (n.) The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.
Note: The term is applied to a seizure or taking either of persons or property. In the serving of process in a civil suit, it is most generally applied to the taking of property, whether at common law, as a species of distress, to compel defendant's appearance, or under local statutes, to satisfy the judgment the plaintiff may recover in the action. The terms attachment and arrest are both applied to the taking or apprehension of a defendant to compel an appearance in a civil action. Attachments are issued at common law and in chancery, against persons for contempt of court. In England, attachment is employed in some cases where capias is with us, as against a witness who fails to appear on summons. In some of the New England States a writ of attachment is a species of mesne process upon which the property of a defendant may be seized at the commencement of a suit and before summons to him, and may be held to satisfy the judgment the plaintiff may recover. In other States this writ can issue only against absconding debtors and those who conceal themselves. See {Foreign}, {Garnishment}, {Trustee process}. --Bouvier. --Burrill. --Blackstone.
Syn: {Attachment}, {Affection}.
Usage: The leading idea of affection is that of warmth and tenderness; the leading idea of attachment is that of being bound to some object by strong and lasting ties. There is more of sentiment (and sometimes of romance) in affection, and more of principle in preserving attachment. We speak of the ardor of the one, and the fidelity of the other. There is another distinction in the use and application of these words. The term attachment is applied to a wider range of objects than affection. A man may have a strong attachment to his country, to his profession, to his principles, and even to favorite places; in respect to none of these could we use the word affection.
Attachment (n.) A feeling of affection for a person or an institution [syn: {attachment}, {fond regard}].
Attachment (n.) A supplementary part or accessory.
Attachment (n.) A writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding.
Attachment (n.) A connection that fastens things together [syn: {attachment}, {bond}].
Attachment (n.) Faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive" [syn: {attachment}, {adherence}, {adhesion}].
Attachment (n.) The act of attaching or affixing something [syn: {attachment}, {affixation}].
Attachment (n.) The act of fastening things together [syn: {fastening}, {attachment}].
Attachment (n.) Crim. law, practice. A writ requiring a sheriff to apprehend a particular person, who has been guilty of. a contempt of court, and to bring the offender before the court. Tidd's Pr. Index, h.t.; Grab. Pr. 555.
Attachment (n.) It may be awarded by the court upon a bare suggestion, though generally an oath stating what contempt has been committed is required, or on their own knowledge without indictment or information. An attachment may be issued against officers of the court for disobedience or contempt of their rules and orders, for disobedience of their process, and for disturbing them in their lawful proceedings. Bac. Ab. h.t. A. in the nature of a civil execution, and it was therefore held it could not be executed on Sunday; 1 T. R. 266; Cowper, 394; Willes, R. 292, note (b); yet, in. one case, it was decided, that it was so far criminal, that it could not be granted in England on the affirmation of a Quaker. Stra. 441. See 5 Halst. 63; 1 Cowen, 121, note; Bac. Ab. h.t.
Attachment (n.), Remedies. A writ issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, commanding the sheriff or other proper officer to seize any property; credit, or right, belonging to the defendant, in whatever hands the same may be found, to satisfy the demand which the plaintiff has against him.
Attachment (n.) This writ always issues before judgment, and is intended to compel an appearance in this respect it differs from an execution. In some of the states this process can be issued only against absconding debtors, or those who conceal themselves; in others it is issued in the first instance, so that the property attached may respond to the exigency of the writ, and satisfy the judgment.
Attachment (n.) There are two kinds of attachment in Pennsylvania, the foreign attachment, and the domestic attachment. l. The foreign attachment is a mode of proceeding by a creditor against the property of his debtor, when the debtor is out of the jurisdiction of the state, and is not an inhabitant of the same. The object of this process is in the first instance to compel an appearance by the debtor, although his property may even eventually be made liable to the amount of the plaintiff Is claim. It will be proper to consider, 1. by whom it be issued; 2. against what property 3. mode of proceeding. 1. The plaintiff must be a creditor of the defendant; the claim of the plaintiff need not, however, be technically a debt, but it may be such on which an action of assumpsit would lie but an attachment will not lie for a demand which arises ex delicto; or when special bail would not be regularly required. Serg. on Att. 51. 2. The writ of attachment may be issued against the real and personal estate of any person not residing within the commonwealth, and not being within the county in which such writ may issue, at the time. of the issuing thereof. And proceedings may be had against persons convicted of crime, and sentenced to imprisonment. 3. The writ of attachment is in general terms, not specifying in the body of it the name of the garnishee, or the property to be attached, but commanding the officer to attach the defendant, by all and singular his goods and chattels, in whose hands or possession soever the same may be found in his bailiwick, so that he be and appear before the court at a certain time to answer, &c. The foreign attachment is issued solely for the benefit of the plaintiff.
Attachment (n.) The domestic attachment is issued by the court of common pleas of the county in which any debtor, being an inhabitant of the commonwealth, may reside; if such debtor shall have absconded from the place of his usual abode within the same, or shall have remained absent from the commonwealth, or shall have confined himself to his own house, or concealed himself elsewhere, with a design, in either case, to defraud his creditors. It is issued on an oath or affirmation, previously made by a creditor of such person, or by some one on his behalf, of the truth of his debt, and of the facts upon which the attachment may be founded. Any other creditor of such person, upon affidavit of his debt as aforesaid, may suggest his name upon the record, and thereupon such creditor may proceed to prosecute his said writ, if the person suing the same shall refuse or neglect to proceed thereon, or if he fail to establish his right to prosecute the same, as a creditor of the defendant. The property attached is vested in trustees to be appointed by the court, who are, after giving six months public notice of their appointment, to distribute the assets attached among the creditors under certain regulations prescribed by the act of assembly. Perishable goods way be sold under an order of the court, both under a foreign and domestic attachment. Vide Serg. on Attachments Whart. Dig. title Attachment.
Attachment (n.) By the code of practice of Louisiana, an attachment in the hands of third person is declared to be a mandate which a creditor obtains from a competent officer, commanding the seizure of any property, credit or right, belonging to his debtor, in whatever hands they may be found, to satisfy the demand which he intends to bring against him. A creditor may obtain such attachment of the property of his debtor, in the following cases. 1. When such debtor is about permanently leaving the state, without there being a possibility, in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, of obtaining or executing judgment against him previous to, his departure; or when such debtor has already left the state never again to return. 2. When such debtor resides out of the state. 3. When he conceals himself to avoid being cited or forced to answer to the suit intended to be brought against him. Articles 239, 240.
Attachment (n.) By the local laws of some of the New England states, and particularly of the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, personal property and real estate may be attached upon mesne process to respond the exigency of the writ, and satisfy the judgment. In such cases it is the common practice for the officer to bail the goods attached, to some person, who is usually a friend of the debtor, upon an express or implied agreement on his part, to have them forthcoming on demand, or in time to respond the judgment, when the execution thereon shall be issued. Story on Bailm. Sec. 124. As to the rights and duties of the officer or bailor in such cases, and as to the rights and duties of the bailee, who is commonly called the receiptor, see 2 Mass. 514; 9 Mass. 112 11 Mass. 211; 6 Johns. R.
195 9 Mass. 104, 265; 10 Mass. 125 15 Mass. 310; 1 Pick. R. 232, 389. See Metc. & Perk. Dig. tit. Absent and Absconding Debtors.
Attacked (imp. & p. p.) of Attack
Attacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attack
Appel (n.) (Fencing) A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.
APPEL (Acronyms) A P3P Preference Exchange Language (P3P).
Compare: Fencing
Fencing (n.) [Mass noun] 劍術；擊劍；柵欄；籬笆；圍牆；築柵欄的材料 The sport of fighting with swords, especially foils, épées, or sabres, according to a set of rules, in order to score points against an opponent.
[As modifier] ‘A fencing foil.’
Fencing (n.) [Mass noun] The action of conducting a discussion or argument in an evasive way.
Fencing (n.) [Mass noun] A series of fences.
‘Security fencing.’
Fencing (n.) [Mass noun] Material used for the construction of fences.
‘Chestnut is still in demand for fencing.’
Fencing (n.) [Mass noun] The erection of fences.
Fencing (n.) [Mass noun] The jumping of fences by a racehorse.
[As modifier] ‘The horse makes his fencing debut today.’
Attack (v. t.) 進攻，襲擊；抨擊，責難；（努力地）著手幹；（狼吞虎嚥地）開始吃 To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
Attack (v. i.) 進攻，襲擊 To make an onset or attack.
Attack (n.) 攻擊； 抨擊； （隊員等的）進攻； （疾病）侵襲 The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
Attack (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
Attack (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
Attack (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
Attackable (a.) 可腐蝕的，可侵蝕的 Capable of being attacked.
Attacker (n.) [C] 攻擊者；進攻者；抨擊者；（球類比賽的）攻擊手 One who attacks. Attagas.
Compare: Attagas
Attagas (n.) (Zool.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.
Attacker (n.) Someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter].
Attacker (n.) [ C ] 襲擊者；攻擊者 A person who uses violence to hurt someone.
// The police think she must have known her attacker.
Attagas (n.) Alt. of Attagen
Attagen (n.) (pl. Attagens) (Zool.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.
Yataghan (n.) 回教徒使用的無鍔彎刀 A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight. [Written also ataghan, attaghan.] -- Chaucer.
Attaghan (n.) (pl. A ttaghans) Alternative form of yataghan.
Yataghan (n.) A long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge.
Attaghan (n.) See {Yataghan}.
Attained (imp. & p. p.) of Attain
Attaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attain
Attain (v. t.) 達到；獲得；到達 To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means? -- Abp. Tillotson.
Attain (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. [Obs. with a material object.] -- Chaucer.
Attain (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. [Obs.]
Not well attaining his meaning. -- Fuller.
Attain (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at. "Canaan he now attains." -- Milton.
Attain (v. t.) To overtake. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Attain (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
Syn: To Attain, Obtain, Procure.
Usage: Attain always implies an effort toward an object. Hence it is not synonymous with obtain and procure, which do not necessarily imply such effort or motion.
We procure or obtain a thing by purchase or loan, and we obtain by inheritance, but we do not attain it by such means.
Attain (n.) Attainment. [Obs.]
Attain (v. i.) 達到；獲得 [（+to）]；到達 [（+to）] To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
If by any means they might attain to Phenice. -- Acts xxvii. 12.
Nor nearer might the dogs attain. -- Sir W. Scott.
To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. -- Cowper.
Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this. -- J. R. Green.
Attain (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it. -- Ps. cxxxix. 6.
Attain (v.) To gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" [syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach].
Attain (v.) Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain].
Attain (v.) Find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover].
Attain (v.) Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain].
Attainability (n.) 可達到；可獲得 [U] The quality of being attainable; attainableness.
Attainability (n.) The state of being achievable [syn: achievability, attainability, attainableness].
Attainable (a.) 可達到的；可獲得的 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.
The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. -- Addison.
Attainable (a.) Obtainable. [Obs.]
General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. --Marshall.
Attainable (a.) Capable of being attained or accomplished; "choose an attainable goal"; "art is not something that is come-at-able by dint of study" [syn: attainable, come-at-able].
Attainable (a.) (Formal) (C2) 可以達到的；可以獲得的 Possible to achieve.
// We must ensure that we do not set ourselves goals that are not attainable.
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Unattainable (a.) (C2) 達不到的，無法實現的 Not able to be achieved.
// An unattainable ideal.
Many economists think that full employment is an unattainable goal.
Attainableness (n.) 可達到；成就感；所及 The quality of being attainable; attainability.
Attainableness (n.) The state of being achievable [syn: achievability, attainability, attainableness].
Attainder (n.) 【史】【律】被剝奪財產和公民權利 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. -- Abbott.
Note: Formerly attainder was the inseparable consequence of a judicial or legislative sentence for treason or felony, and involved the forfeiture of all the real and personal property of the condemned person, and such "corruption of blood" that he could neither receive nor transmit by inheritance, nor could he sue or testify in any court, or claim any legal protection or rights. In England attainders are now abolished, and in the United States the Constitution provides that no bill of attainder shall be passed; and no attainder of treason (in consequence of a judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
Attainder (n.) A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [Obs.]
He lived from all attainder of suspect. -- Shak.
Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.
Attainder (n.) Cancellation of civil rights [syn: attainder, civil death].
Attainder (n.) English criminal law. Attinctura, the stain or corruption of blood which arises from being condemned for any crime.
Attainder (n.) Attainder by confession, is either by pleading guilty at the bar before the judges, and not putting one's self on one's trial by a jury; or before the coroner in sanctuary, when in ancient times, the offender was obliged to abjure the realm.
Attainder (n.) Attainder by verdict, is when the prisoner at the bar pleads not guilty to the indictment, and is pronounced guilty by the verdict of the jury.
Attainder (n.) Attainder by process or outlawry, is when the party flies, and is subsequently outlawed. Co. Lit. 391.
Attainder (n.) Bill of attainder, is a bill brought into parliament for attainting persons condemned for high treason. By the constitution of the United States, art. 1, sect. 9, Sec. 3, it is provided that no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
Attainment (n.) 達到；獲得；到達 [U] [（+of）]；成就；學識，才能 [P] The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
The attainment of every desired object. -- Sir W. Jones.
Attainment (n.) That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.
Attainment (n.) The act of achieving an aim; "the attainment of independence."
Attainment (n.) Arrival at a new stage; "his attainment of puberty was delayed by malnutrition."
Attainment (n.) An ability that has been acquired by training [syn: skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment].
Attainted (imp. & p. p.) of Attaint.
Attainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attaint.
Attaint (v. t.) 【史】【律】（宣告）剝奪（被判死刑者等）的公民權利（或財產等）；玷汙；凌辱；損壞（名譽等） To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.]
Attaint (v. t.) (Old Law) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. [Obs.]
Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. -- Blackstone.
Attaint (v. t.) (Law) 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.
No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. -- Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.
Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.[Archaic]
Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. -- Shak.
Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Ph?bus' golden face it did attaint. -- Spenser.
Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. -- Spenser.
Attaint (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted. [Obs.] -- Shak.