Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) 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..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.

Attempt :: Attempt (n.) 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 :: Attemptable (a.) Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked..

Attempted :: Attempted (imp. & p. p.) of Attemp.

Attempter :: Attempter (n.) One who attempts; one who essays anything.

Attempter :: Attempter (n.) An assailant; also, a temper..

Attempting :: Attempting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attemp.

Attemptive :: Attemptive (a.) Disposed to attempt; adventurous.

Contempt :: Contempt (n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn..

Contempt :: Contempt (n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

Contempt :: Contempt (n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.

Contempt :: Contempt (n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority..

Contemptibility :: Contemptibility (n.) The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

Contemptible :: Contemptible (a.) Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

Contemptible :: Contemptible (a.) Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.

Contemptible :: Contemptible (a.) Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.

Contemptibleness :: Contemptibleness (n.) The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised..

Contemptibly :: Contemptibly (adv.) In a contemptible manner.

Contemptuous :: Contemptuous (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

Contemptuously :: Contemptuously (adv.) In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.

Contemptuousness :: Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

Overtempt :: Overtempt (v. t.) To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance..

Reattempt :: Reattempt (v. t.) To attempt again.

Tempt :: Tempt (v. t.) To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

Tempt :: Tempt (v. t.) To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce..

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