Obs. Also attemptat. [a. OF. (14th c.) attemptat (mod. attentat), as if ad. L. *attempt-, attentātus, sb., f. attempt-, attentāre, to ATTEMPT. See also ATTENTATE.]
1. An attempt, endeavor.
1531. Elyot, Gov., Proem (1544), A ij b. I have nowe enterprised to describe in our vulgar tunge the forme of a juste publike weale … which attemptate is not of presumption.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 160. Many other like words borrowed out of the Latin and French … as … attemptat for attempt.
2. esp. A violent or criminal attempt; an attack, assault, outrage, raid, incursion. (So F. attentat.)
1524. State Papers Hen. VIII., IV. 122. To represse any attemptate that might be made against the said King.
c. 1570. Mary Q. Scots, in H. Campbell, Love-lett. (1824), 269. To repair the wrangis and attemptatis committit aganis me their soverane.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., IV. 364. He called … for redress of the attemptates committed by the Greams.
