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† aˈttemptate Obs.
Also attemptat.
[a. OF. (14th c.) attemptat (mod. attentat), as if ad. L. *attempt-, attentātus, n., f. attempt-, attentāre, to attempt. See also attentate.]
1. An attempt, endeavour.
1531Elyot Gov. Proem (1544) A ij b, I have nowe enterprised to describe in our vulgar tunge the forme of a juste publike weale..which attemptate is not of presumption. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 160 Many other like words borrowed out of the Latin and French..as..attemptat for attempt.
2. esp. A violent or criminal attempt; an attack, assault, outrage, raid, incursion. (So F. attentat.)
1524State Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 122 To represse any attemptate that might be made against the said King. c1570Mary Q. of Scots in H. Campbell Love-lett. (1824) 269 To repair the wrangis and attemptatis committit aganis me their soverane. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. IV. 364 He called..for redress of the attemptates committed by the Greams. |