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. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Ambition :: Ambition (n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something..
Self-conceited :: Self-conceited (a.) Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited..
Theosophy :: Theosophy (n.) Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the
Vaunt :: Vaunt (v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag..
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..
Attainture :: Attainture (n.) Attainder; disgrace.
Attaining :: Attaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attai.
Magnality :: Magnality (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment.
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.
Recure :: Recure (v. t.) To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
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..
Art :: Art (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation..
Goal :: Goal (n.) The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain..
Attain :: Attain (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind..
Attain :: Attain (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach..
Success :: Success (n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Catch :: Catch (v. i.) To attain possession.
Attain :: Attain (n.) Attainment.
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..
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