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ATTAINED

Volume 3 · 53 words · 1815 Edition

in Law, is applied to a person's being under attainder. See ATTAINER.

ATTALICÆ VESTES, in antiquity, garments made of a kind of cloth of gold. They took the denomination from Attalus, furnamed Philomater, a wealthy king of Pergamus, who was the first, according to Pliny, who procured gold to be wove into cloth.