Athjeäri
"Coithus Athjeäri" Coithus Athjeäri is the Galeoth Earl of Gaenri , and nephew to Coithus Saubon . Considered the eyes of the Holy War, he would ride out ahead with his men and report back against the Fanim .

The Thousandfold Thought

As the Holy War was slowly approaching Shimeh , Fanayal ab Kascamandri took to the field with his Coyauri and hand-pick Grandees to hunt down that who they called Hurall’arkeet. Cinganjehoi ab Sakjal was ordered to ride with his Eumarnans south in an attempt to try and intercept and ambush Athjeäri and his raiding forces.

The Battle at Madas

Lying in ambush with his forces, Cinganjehoi engaged the Gaenri. Though outnumbered 10 to 1 they met Cinganjehoi’s men in battle. During the fight the son of Seleukaran Grandee stabbed Athjeäri in his face, delivering a fatal blow. At great cost his body is recovered by his men.

Coithus Athjeäri

Title(s): Earl of Gaenri
Aliases: Hurall’arkeet Wind Has Teeth
Lived: 4089 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Gaenri
Relatives: Eryeat (grandfather) Narnol (uncle) Saubon (uncle) Asilda (mother) Agabon (cousin)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Coithus Athjeäri

Title(s): Earl of Gaenri
Aliases: Hurall’arkeet Wind Has Teeth
Lived: 4089 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Gaenri
Relatives: Eryeat (grandfather) Narnol (uncle) Saubon (uncle) Asilda (mother) Agabon (cousin)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Atkondo-Atyoki
Atkondo-Atyoki is the language group of the Satyothi pastoralists of the Atkondras Mountains and surrounding regions. Derived from Satiothi . One of the Satyothi languages .

Atkondras
"Atkondras Mountains" The Atkondras Mountains are perhaps the greatest range west of the Great Kayarsus , running from the Sea of Jorua to the Great Ocean , and effectively sealing Zeüm from the rest of Eärwa .

Atkondras Mountains
The Atkondras Mountains are perhaps the greatest range west of the Great Kayarsus , running from the Sea of Jorua to the Great Ocean , and effectively sealing Zeüm from the rest of Eärwa .

Atrithau
Atrithau was the ancient administrative and commercial capital of what was once Eämnor , and one of two Norsirai cities to have survived the Apocalypse . Atrithau is peculiar in that it is built upon what is called “ anarcane ground ,” which is to say, ground that renders sorcery impotent, found at the foot of Mount Ankulakai . It was originally founded c. 570 as the fortress Ara-Etrith (“New Etrith”) by the famed Ûmeri God-King Carû-Ongonean .

Atrithi
Atrithi is the language of Atrithau . Derived from Eämnoric . One of the Norsirai languages .

Atrocity
"Atrocity Tales" Atrocity Tales is a rumoured collection of short stories set in The Second Apocalypse universe between the Nonman Tutelage and the First Holy War . Two Atrocity Tales have so far been published online by R. Scott Bakker, The False Sun, here , and The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin, here . A third Atrocity Tale, The Knife of Many Hands , was published in Grimdark Magazine issues 2 and 3.

Atrocity Tales
Atrocity Tales is a rumoured collection of short stories set in The Second Apocalypse universe between the Nonman Tutelage and the First Holy War . Two Atrocity Tales have so far been published online by R. Scott Bakker, The False Sun, here , and The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin, here . A third Atrocity Tale, The Knife of Many Hands , was published in Grimdark Magazine issues 2 and 3.

Atsushan
"Atsushan Highlands" The Atsushan Highlands are the arid hill country of the Gedean interior.

Atsushan Highlands
The Atsushan Highlands are the arid hill country of the Gedean interior.

Attong
"Attong Plateau" The Attong Plateau , also known as the Attong Gap , is a famous opening in the Hethanta Mountains and a traditional invasion route of the Scylvendi . The name Attong comes from the Kyranean att anoch , meaning "Missing Tower" .

Attong Gap
The Attong Plateau , also known as the Attong Gap , is a famous opening in the Hethanta Mountains and a traditional invasion route of the Scylvendi . The name Attong comes from the Kyranean att anoch , meaning "Missing Tower" .

Attong Plateau
The Attong Plateau , also known as the Attong Gap , is a famous opening in the Hethanta Mountains and a traditional invasion route of the Scylvendi . The name Attong comes from the Kyranean att anoch , meaning "Missing Tower" .

Attrempus
Attrempus (“Tower of Respite” in Kyranean) is the sister fortress of Atyersus . It was founded in 2158 by Seswatha and the nascent School of Mandate , and held in trust by House Nersei of Conriya since 3921.

Atyersus
Atyersus (“Tower of Warning” in Kyranean) is the sister fortress of Attrempus . It was founded in 2157 by Seswatha and other Gnostic survivors of the Apocalypse . Atyersus is the primary stronghold of the Mandate . Atyersus had been built in the manner of the Ancient North , whose architects had known nothing of arches or domes. Her inner galleries were forests of thick columns, their ceilings obscured by canopies of darkness and smoke. Stylized reliefs sheathed every pillar, providing the shining braziers with too much detail.

at
-primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. it is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. from this original import are derived all the various uses of at.
-a relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.
-the relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.
-the relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.
-the relation of a point or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80¡; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.
-the relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty
-one; at once; at first.
-the relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.
-relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one.

at one
-in concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation.
-of the same opinion; agreed; as, on these points we are at one.
-together.

atabal
-a kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the moors.

atacamite
-an oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald
-green prismatic crystals.

atafter
-after.

ataghan
-see yataghan.

atake
-to overtake.

ataman
-a hetman, or chief of the cossacks.

ataraxia
-alt. of ataraxy

ataraxy
-perfect peace of mind, or calmness.

ataunt
-alt. of ataunto

ataunto
-fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

atavic
-pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.

atavism
-the recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.
-the recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

ataxia
-alt. of ataxy

ataxic
-characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements.

ataxy
-disorder; irregularity.
-irregularity in disease, or in the functions.
-the state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.

atazir
-the influence of a star upon other stars or upon men.

ate
-the preterit of eat.
-the goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
-of eat

atechnic
-without technical or artistic knowledge.

ateles
-a genus of american monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. see spider monkey, and coaita.

atelier
-a workshop; a studio.

atellan
-of or pertaining to atella, in ancient italy; as, atellan plays; farcical; ribald.
-a farcical drama performed at atella.

athalamous
-not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.

athamaunt
-adamant.

athanasian
-of or pertaining to athanasius, bishop of alexandria in the 4th century.

athanor
-a digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. it was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.

athecata
-a division of hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. see tubularian.

atheism
-the disbelief or denial of the existence of a god, or supreme intelligent being.
-godlessness.

atheist
-one who disbelieves or denies the existence of a god, or supreme intelligent being.
-a godless person.

atheistic
-alt. of atheistical

atheistical
-pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism;
-- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.
-disbelieving the existence of a god; impious; godless;
-- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.

atheize
-to render atheistic or godless.
-to discourse, argue, or act as an atheist.

atheling
-an anglo
-saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family.

athenaea
-of athenaeum

athenaeum
-a temple of athene, at athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.
-a school founded at rome by hadrian.
-a literary or scientific association or club.
-a building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.

atheneum
-alt. of athenaeum

atheneums
-of athenaeum

athenian
-of or pertaining to athens, the metropolis of greece.
-a native or citizen of athens.

atheological
-opposed to theology; atheistic.

atheology
-antagonism to theology.

atheous
-atheistic; impious.
-without god, neither accepting nor denying him.

atherine
-a small marine fish of the family atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. the european species (atherina presbyter) is used as food. the american species (menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. see silversides.

athermancy
-inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat.

athermanous
-not transmitting heat;
-- opposed to diathermanous.

athermous
-athermanous.

atheroid
-shaped like an ear of grain.

atheroma
-an encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
-a disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

atheromatous
-of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma.

athetosis
-a variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

athink
-to repent; to displease; to disgust.

athirst
-wanting drink; thirsty.
-having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing.

athlete
-one who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient greece or rome.
-any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.
-one fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

athletic
-of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.
-befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic celts.

athleticism
-the practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.

athletics
-the art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

athletism
-the state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.

athwart
-across; from side to side of.
-across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
-across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
-across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.

atilt
-in the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust.
-in the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [in this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]

atimy
-public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.

atlanta
-a genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. see heteropod.

atlantal
-relating to the atlas.
-anterior; cephalic.

atlantean
-of or pertaining to the isle atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.
-pertaining to, or resembling, atlas; strong.

atlantes
-figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature;
-- called also telamones. see caryatides.

atlantic
-of or pertaining to mt. atlas in libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between europe and africa on the east and america on the west; as, the atlantic ocean (called also the atlantic); the atlantic basin; the atlantic telegraph.
-of or pertaining to the isle of atlantis.
-descended from atlas.

atlantides
-the pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of atlas.

atlas
-one who sustains a great burden.
-the first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
-a collection of maps in a volume
-a volume of plates illustrating any subject.
-a work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
-a large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps;
-- called also atlas folio.
-a drawing paper of large size. see under paper, n.
-a rich kind of satin manufactured in india.

atlases
-of atlas

atmidometer
-an instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow.

atmo
-the standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0¡ centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of paris.

atmologic
-alt. of atmological

atmological
-of or pertaining to atmology.

atmologist
-one who is versed in atmology.

atmology
-that branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor.

atmolysis
-the act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

atmolyzation
-separation by atmolysis.

atmolyze
-to subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

atmolyzer
-an apparatus for effecting atmolysis.

atmometer
-an instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

atmosphere
-the whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth;
-- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of mars.
-any gaseous envelope or medium.
-a supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.
-the pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 ibs. to the sq. inch.
-any surrounding or pervading influence or condition.
-the portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

atmospheric
-alt. of atmospherical

atmospherical
-of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of the earth.
-existing in the atmosphere.
-caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine.
-dependent on the atmosphere.

atmospherically
-in relation to the atmosphere.

atmospherology
-the science or a treatise on the atmosphere.

atokous
-producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

atoll
-a coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

atom
-an ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
-an ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.
-a constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.
-the smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.
-anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
-to reduce to atoms.

atomic
-alt. of atomical

atomical
-of or pertaining to atoms.
-extremely minute; tiny.

atomically
-in an atomic manner; in accordance with the atomic philosophy.

atomician
-an atomist.

atomicism
-atomism.

atomicity
-degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. see valence.

atomism
-the doctrine of atoms. see atomic philosophy, under atomic.

atomist
-one who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory.

atomistic
-of or pertaining to atoms; relating to atomism.

atomization
-the act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.
-the reduction of fluids into fine spray.

atomize
-to reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.

atomizer
-one who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

atomology
-the doctrine of atoms.

atomy
-an atom; a mite; a pigmy.
-a skeleton.

atonable
-admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

atone
-to agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
-to stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
-to set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.
-to unite in making.
-to make satisfaction for; to expiate.

atoned
-of atone

atonement
-reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
-satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends;
-- with for. specifically, in theology: the expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of christ.

atoner
-one who makes atonement.

atonic
-characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.
-unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.
-destitute of tone vocality; surd.
-a word that has no accent.
-an element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.
-a remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.

atoning
-of atone

atony
-want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

atop
-on or at the top.

atrabilarian
-alt. of atrabilarious
-a person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac.

atrabilarious
-affected with melancholy; atrabilious.

atrabiliar
-melancholy; atrabilious.

atrabiliary
-of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.
-melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious;
-- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania.

atrabilious
-melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary.

atramentaceous
-black, like ink; inky; atramental.

atramental
-alt. of atramentous

atramentarious
-like ink; suitable for making ink. sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

atramentous
-of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

atrede
-to surpass in council.

atrenne
-to outrun.

atresia
-absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

atria
-of atrium

atrial
-of or pertaining to an atrium.

atrip
-just hove clear of the ground;
-- said of the anchor.
-sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming;
-- said of sails.
-hoisted up and ready to be swayed across;
-- said of yards.

atrium
-a square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
-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.
-the main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. also, the whole articular portion of the heart.
-a cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. see ascidioidea.

atrocha
-a kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

atrocious
-extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
-characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
-very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.

atrocities
-of atrocity

atrocity
-enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
-an atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

atrophic
-relating to atrophy.

atrophied
-affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.
-of atrophy

atrophy
-a wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
-to cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
-to waste away; to dwindle.

atropia
-same as atropine.

atropine
-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.

atropism
-a condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

atropous
-not inverted; orthotropous.

atrous
-coal
-black; very black.

atrypa
-a extinct genus of branchiopoda, very common in silurian limestones.

attabal
-see atabal.

attacca
-attack at once;
-- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

attach
-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.
-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.
-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.
-to connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix;
-- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
-to take, seize, or lay hold of.
-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.
-to adhere; to be attached.
-to come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
-an attachment.

attachable
-capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

attache
-one attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. specifically: one attached to an embassy.

attached
-of attach

attaching
-of attach

attachment
-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.
-that by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
-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.).
-a seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.
-the writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.

attack
-to fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
-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.
-to set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
-to begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
-to make an onset or attack.
-the act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault;
-- opposed to defense.
-an assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
-a setting to work upon some task, etc.
-an access of disease; a fit of sickness.
-the beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.

attackable
-capable of being attacked.

attacked
-of attack

attacker
-one who attacks.

attacking
-of attack

attagas
-alt. of attagen

attagen
-a species of sand grouse (syrrghaptes pallasii) found in asia and rarely in southern europe.

attaghan
-see yataghan.

attain
-to achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
-to gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
-to get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
-to reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
-to overtake.
-to reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
-to come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
-to come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
-attainment.

attainability
-the quality of being attainable; attainableness.

attainable
-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.
-obtainable.

attainableness
-the quality of being attainable; attainability.

attainder
-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.
-a stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.

attained
-of attain

attaining
-of attain

attainment
-the act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
-that which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.

attaint
-to attain; to get act; to hit.
-to find guilty; to convict;
-- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
-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.
-to accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
-to affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
-to stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
-attainted; corrupted.
-a touch or hit.
-a blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
-a writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.
-a stain or taint; disgrace. see taint.
-an infecting influence.

attainted
-of attaint

attainting
-of attaint

attaintment
-attainder; attainture; conviction.

attainture
-attainder; disgrace.

attal
-same as attle.

attame
-to pierce; to attack.
-to broach; to begin.

attaminate
-to corrupt; to defile; to contaminate.

attar
-a fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

attask
-to take to task; to blame.

attaste
-to taste or cause to taste.

atte
-at the.

attemper
-to reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
-to soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.
-to mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.
-to accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.

attemperament
-a tempering, or mixing in due proportion.

attemperance
-temperance; attemperament.

attemperate
-tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
-to attemper.

attemperation
-the act of attempering or regulating.

attempered
-of attemper

attempering
-of attemper

attemperly
-temperately.

attemperment
-attemperament.

attempt
-to make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
-to try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
-to try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.
-to attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.
-to make an attempt;
-- with upon.
-a essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.

attemptable
-capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.

attempted
-of attempt

attempter
-one who attempts; one who essays anything.
-an assailant; also, a temper.

attempting
-of attempt

attemptive
-disposed to attempt; adventurous.

attend
-to direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.
-to care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
-to go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.
-to be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects.
-to be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.
-to wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
-to apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen;
-- usually followed by to.
-to accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting;
-- often followed by on or upon.
-(with to) to take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business.
-to wait; to stay; to delay.

attendance
-attention; regard; careful application.
-the act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.
-waiting for; expectation.
-the persons attending; a retinue; attendants.

attendancy
-the quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant.

attendant
-being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
-accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
-depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
-one who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
-one who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.
-that which accompanies; a concomitant.
-one who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.

attended
-of attend

attendement
-intent.

attender
-one who, or that which, attends.

attending
-of attend

attendment
-an attendant circumstance.

attent
-attentive; heedful.
-attention; heed.

attentat
-an attempt; an assault.
-a proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed.
-any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

attentate
-alt. of attentat

attention
-the act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending.
-an act of civility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger.

attentive
-heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.
-heedful of the comfort of others; courteous.

attently
-attentively.

attenuant
-making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent.
-a medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.

attenuate
-to make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
-to make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. specifically: to subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
-to lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.
-to become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
-alt. of attenuated

attenuated
-of attenuate
-made thin or slender.
-made thin or less viscid; rarefied.

attenuating
-of attenuate

attenuation
-the act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
-the act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
-the process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.

atter
-poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.

attercop
-a spider.
-a peevish, ill
-natured person.

atterrate
-to fill up with alluvial earth.

atterration
-the act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth.

attest
-to bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.
-to give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.
-to call to witness; to invoke.
-witness; testimony; attestation.

attestation
-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
-of the nature of attestation.

attested
-of attest

attester
-alt. of attestor

attesting
-of attest

attestive
-attesting; furnishing evidence.

attestor
-one who attests.

attic
-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.
-a low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles;
-- a term introduced in the 17th century. hence:
-a room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
-an athenian; an athenian author.

attical
-attic.

atticism
-a favoring of, or attachment to, the athenians.
-the style and idiom of the greek language, used by the athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

atticize
-to conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of attica.
-to side with the athenians.
-to use the attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the athenians.

attiguous
-touching; bordering; contiguous.

attinge
-to touch lightly.

attire
-to dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
-dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
-the antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
-the internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

attired
-of attire
-provided with antlers, as a stag.

attirement
-attire; adornment.

attirer
-one who attires.

attiring
-of attire

attitude
-the posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
-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.
-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
-relating to attitude.

attitudinarian
-one who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

attitudinarianism
-a practicing of attitudes; posture making.

attitudinize
-to assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

attitudinizer
-one who practices attitudes.

attle
-rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.

attollent
-lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle.

attonce
-at once; together.

attone
-see at one.

attorn
-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.
-to agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

attorney
-a substitute; a proxy; an agent.
-one who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
-a legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
-to perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

attorney
-general
-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
-the practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.

attorneys
-of attorney

attorneyship
-the office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.

attornment
-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
-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.
-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.
-attraction.

attractability
-the quality or fact of being attractable.

attractable
-capable of being attracted; subject to attraction.

attracted
-of attract

attracter
-one who, or that which, attracts.

attractile
-having power to attract.

attracting
-of attract
-that attracts.

attraction
-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.
-the act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
-the power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
-that which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

attractive
-having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
-attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
-that which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.

attractivity
-the quality or degree of attractive power.

attractor
-one who, or that which, attracts.

attrahent
-attracting; drawing; attractive.
-that which attracts, as a magnet.
-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
-to entrap; to insnare.
-to adorn with trapping; to array.

attrectation
-frequent handling or touching.

attributable
-capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

attribute
-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).
-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.
-reputation.
-a conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of hercules.
-quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

attributed
-of attribute

attributing
-of attribute

attribution
-the act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
-that which is ascribed or attributed.

attributive
-attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.
-a word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

attributively
-in an attributive manner.

attrite
-rubbed; worn by friction.
-repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin;
-- opposed to contrite.

attrition
-the act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
-the state of being worn.
-grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. see contrition.

attry
-poisonous; malignant; malicious.

attune
-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.
-to arrange fitly; to make accordant.

attuned
-of attune

attuning
-of attune

atwain
-in twain; asunder.

atween
-between.

atwirl
-twisted; distorted; awry.

atwite
-to speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

atwixt
-betwixt.

atwo
-in two; in twain; asunder.

atypic
-alt. of atypical

atypical
-that has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

atting
-of fat