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 ATT ( 504 ) A U B ferved a clerkfhip for five years, taking the ATTIC, any thing relating to Attica, or to the city of having Athens: thus Attic fait, in philology, is a delicate proper oath, being enrolled, and examined by the poignant fort of wit and humour peculiar to the Athe- judges. The' attorney-general pleads within the bar. nian writers; Attic witnefs, a witnefs incapable of To him come warrants for making out patents, pardons, <bc. and he is the principal manager of all lawcorruption, <bc.

Attic, in architecture, a fort of building wherein the affairs of the crown. !,!?//(?/• ^Attorney.* See Letter. roof or covering is not to be feen; thus named, be- Warrant of tokuky. See Warrant. caufe the buildings at Athens were generally of this ATTOURNMENT, or Attornment, in law, a form. Attic vrder, a fmall order railed upon a large one, by transfer from one lord to another of the homage and way of crowning, or to finilh the building; or it is, fervice a tenant makes; or that acknowledgment of according to fome, a kind of rich pedeftal, fometimes duty to a new lord. ufed for the conveniency of having a wardrobe, or the ATTRACTION, in natural philofophy, an indefinite applicable to all adtions whereby bodies tend tolike; and inftead of columns, has only pilafters of a term, wards one another, whether in,virtue of their weight, particular form, and fometimes no pilatters at all. . The name Attic is alfo given to a whole llory into magnetifin, eledh'icity, impulfe, or any other latent power. See Mechanics, Electricity, dxc. which this order enters; this little order being always Elective Attractions. See Chemistry. found over another greater one, in a general fenfe, that which agrees Attic bafe, a peculiar kind of bafe ufed by the ancient ATTRIBUTE, architects in the Ionic order; and by Palladio, and with fome perfon or thing ; or a quality determining fomethingto be after a certain manner. Thus, underfome others, in the Doric. flanding is an attribute of mind, and extenfion an atATTIRE, in botany. See Antherje. of body. That attribute which the mind conAttire, in hunting, fignifies the head or horns of a tribute as the foundation of all the red, is called its deer. The attire of a flag, if perfect, confifts of ceives attribute: thus extenfion is by fome, and fobur, pearls, beam, gutters, antler, fur-antler, royal, effential by others, efteemed the effential attributes of fur-royal, and croches ; of a buck, of the bur, beam, lidity body or matter. brow-antler, advancer, palm, and fpellers. in theology, the feveral qualities or perATTITUDE, in painting and fculpture, the gellure of Attributes, of the Divine nature, as w.ifdom, power, jua figure or ftatue; or it is fuch a difpofition of their fedtions ftice, goodnefs, <bc. parts as ferves to exprels the aCtion and fentiments of Attributes, in logic, are the predicates of any fubthe perfon reprefented, jedt, or what may be affirmed or denied of any thing. ATTLEBURY, a market-town of Norfolk, about Attributes, in painting and fculpture, are fymbols eighty miles north-eaft of London, fituated in 40 E, added to feveral figures, to intimate their particular long, and 520 30' N. lat. and charadter. Thus, the eagle is an attribute ATTOCK, a city on the eaftern frontiers of Perfia, office on the river Attock, in 72 E. long, and 33 N.lat. the.rubbing or flriking of bodies one aATTOLLENS, in anatomy, an appellation given to fe- ATTRITION, another, fo as to throw off fome of their fuperveral mufcles, otherwife called Icvatores and eleva- gainft ficial particles. tores. a kingdom of India, beyond the Ganges, fituated ATTORNEY, a perfon who by confent, command- AVA, on the north eafl part of the bay pf Bengal, between ment, or requeft, takes heed, fees, and takes upon the countries of Arracan on the north, and Pegu on him the charge of other mens bufinefs, in their ab- the fouth. Tence. Attorney is either general or fpecial: Attor- AVALON, a town of Burgundy in France, .fituated in ney-general is he that by general authority is appoint- 30 50' E. long, and 47° 25' N. lat. ed to all our affairs or lints ; as the attorney-general AVARIA, in the cufioms of Turky and Perfia, money of the king, which is nearly the fame with procurator exadted from Chriftians or Europeans, to be quit of Csefaris in the Roman empire. Attorneys-general are fome falfe accufation formed on purpofe. made either by the king’s letters-patent, or by our appointment before juftices in eyre, in open court. At- AVAST, in the fea-langue, a term requiring to flop, torney fpecial or particular, is he that is employed in or to ftay. among hunters, the fecond branches one or more caufes particularly fpecified. There are AVAUNCHERS, See Head. alfo, in refpeCt of the divers courts, attorneys at of a deer’s horns. a town of Provence in France, fituated alarge, and attorneys fpecial, belonging to this or that AUBAGNE, bout feven miles fouthward of Marfeilles, in 50 30' court only. 0 Attorneys in common law, are nearly the fame with E long. '43 15' N. lat. in the cuftoms of France, a right veiled in proClors in the civil law, and.folicitors in courts of AUBANE, king of being heir to a foreigner that dies within equity. Attorneys fue out writs of procefs, or com- the mence, carry on, and defend actions, or other pro- hisBydominions. this right the French king claims the inheritance ceedings, in the names of other perfons, in the courts notof common law. None are admitted to a& without of all foreigners that die within his dominions, withfland-
 * a peacock, of Juno; a caduce, of Mercapital of a province of the0 fame name, and0 fituated ofcuryJupiter
 * a club, of Hercules ; and a palm, of Vidfory.