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gn was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson.

e, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison.

en lords and ladies spake aside. Sir W. Scott. To set aside (Law), to annul or defeat the effect or operation of, by a subsequent decision of the same or of a superior tribunal; to declare of no authority; as, to set aside a verdict or a judgment.

in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery. Blackstone. Wharton. Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery. Mozley & W.

Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.

tion. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter.

The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.

things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

An apparatus for effecting atmolysis.

Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine.

ill apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.

resent with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. What cares must then attend the toiling swain. Dryden.

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

ry was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. Newton.

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.…

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

r; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.