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attentate

attentate is the alternative form of attentat.

Meaning of attentat

Noun

attentat (plural attentats)

  1. (obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
    • All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h).1842, Richard Burn, The Ecclesiastical Law, 9th edition, volume 4, page 217
  2. (obsolete) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.
  3. (obsolete) An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.
    • Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...

Forms of attentate

pluralattentates

Questions about attentate

What is attentate the alternative form of?
Attentate is the alternative form of attentat.

Words near attentate in the dictionary

  1. attends to one's knitting
  2. attends to one's own knitting
  3. attensh
  4. attent
  5. attentat
  6. attentate
  7. attentates
  8. attentats
  9. attention
  10. attention deficit disorder
  11. attention deficit disorders

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