Definitions

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  • noun law, obsolete Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

Etymologies

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From either French attentat or German Attentat.

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Examples

  • J'ai pris pour défenseur Doulcet : un tel attentat ne permet nulle défense, c'est pour la forme.

    Archive 2008-03-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Although they are the ones who do the dirty work, the actual attentat, to other men, their superiors in class and station, the lasting benefits of their simple-minded evil have always accrued.

    Women and the Invisible Fist 2008

  • Although they are the ones who do the dirty work, the actual attentat, to other men, their superiors in class and station, the lasting benefits of their simple-minded evil have always accrued.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – May – 16 2008

  • J'ai pris pour défenseur Doulcet : un tel attentat ne permet nulle défense, c'est pour la forme.

    The last letter of Charlotte Corday de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Thu, Jan 12, 2006 wie handyvideos die nachrichten veraendern bbc veroeffentlicht 22minuetiges video ueber den einfluss von handy-videos auf die nachrichten (zBsp.: london attentat). ich denke immer noch, dass die kamerafunktion unnoetig den geringen speicher meines foto-handys belegt .. aber heutzutage weiss ja …

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » BBC: How mobiles changed the face of news 2006

  • By the attentat she took the war and made it a private possession of the South Slavs.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V 1969

  • In the weeks following the attentat he had developed and greatly expanded a system first introduced by the odious General Reinecke in 1943, of "National Socialist Leadership Officers," who were to be attached to regular units in the field and

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Certainly this particular attempt, and its successors which emanated from that same headquarters, enjoyed none of the carefully planned supporting processes which were triggered off by the attentat of 20th July, 1944.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • So now we come to the fateful month of July 1944, when the waters were rising along the whole periphery of the Nazi empire, where everywhere, in Speidel's words, "... the floodgates are creaking," to the day, the 20th, of the attentat; a climacteric in the history of the Third Reich of Hitler's relations with the Army, and of the rational direction of the German war effort.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Then, after the 20th July attentat, Popitz was arrested and Langbehn hauled out and sentenced.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

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