RhymeZone: attentat definitions

Definitions of attentat:

noun: (law, obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
noun: (law, obsolete) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.
noun: (obsolete) An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.

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