Definition of attain

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Attain (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest..

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Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching..
Aspirant :: Aspirant (n.) One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose..
Make :: Make (v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
Move :: Move (n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
Ripe :: Ripe (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain..
Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
Magnality :: Magnality (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment.
Explore :: Explore (v. t.) To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..
Attainted :: Attainted (imp. & p. p.) of Attain.
Mount :: Mount (n.) To attain in value; to amount.
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..
Ambition :: Ambition (n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something..
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..
Attaint :: Attaint (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.
Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
Advance :: Advance (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural..
Perfectionist :: Perfectionist (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life..
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