Definition of attain

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Attain (v. t.) To overtake.

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Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
Aim :: Aim (v. i.) The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected..
Mysticism :: Mysticism (n.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained..
Scholar :: Scholar (n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant..
Attainder :: Attainder (n.) A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.
Cocoa Palm :: Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree..
Sequoia :: Sequoia (n.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the big tree of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height..
Reattainment :: Reattainment (n.) The act of reattaining.
Necessary :: Necessary (a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential..
Brontosaurus :: Brontosaurus (n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.
Attain :: Attain (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at..
Adeption :: Adeption (a.) An obtaining; attainment.
Work :: Work (n.) To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A touch or hit.
Scholarship :: Scholarship (n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..
Tantalism :: Tantalism (n.) A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
To :: To (prep.) The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to from..
Rising :: Rising (a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon..
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