? Obs. [Variant of ATTEMPTATE, assimilated to L. attentatus, and mod.F. attentat.]
† 1. A criminal attempt or assault of any kind. Obs.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 92. Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II/316. This most execrable Attentate.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. xliii. 354. Commissioners for redress of attentates on both sides.
2. An attempt to gain an unauthorized advantage in law: see quot.
1701. Atterbury, Add. 1st Ed. Rights Convoc., 35. An Attentat, i. e. a Criminal Endeavour of exerting a Power, which was superseded and laid asleep.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 100. Attentates … such Proceedings as are made in a Court of Judicature, (pending Suit) and after an Inhibition is decreed Those Things which are done after an Extra-judicial Appeal, may likewise be stiled Attentates.
