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The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending. They say the tongues of dying men En…

Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.

Attentively. [Obs.] Barrow.

A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.

To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.

Made thin or slender.

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore. [Obs.] Holland.

A peevish, ill-natured person. [North of Eng.]

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

Of the nature of attestation.

One who attests.

Attesting; furnishing evidence.

Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined. Attic base (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian a…

Attic. [Obs.] Hammond.

A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.

To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.