English Dictionary

attentat

/ˌætɑnˈtɑː/

noun

(law, obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal. / (law, obsolete) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.

The government has declared a state of emergency following the attentat.

意味（1）

(law, obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h).

意味（2）

(law, obsolete) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.

意味（3）

(obsolete) An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.

Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes.