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The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.

The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.

Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.

One who, or that which, attracts.

Having power to attract.

That attracts. -- At*tract"ing*ly, adv.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

(Bot.) A small body situated on or near the nucleus in the cells of some of the lower plants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis.

Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton.

The quality or degree of attractive power.

One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne

Attracting; drawing; attractive.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

Frequent handling or touching. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.…

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.