Vocabulary : Attain to Attainted

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.
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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.
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