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To ATTAM'INATE, v.a. [attamino, Lat.} To cotv 
nipt ; to lpoil. 
ATTEL'ABUS,/. [Gr. from r)Stsy Heb.] 
Iu zoology, a genus of infers belonging to the order ot 
coleoptera, or beetle-kind. It has four wings, of which 
the fuperior are crultaceous, and ferve as a (heath or co¬ 
ver to the inferior, which are membraneous. The head 
tapers behind, and is inclined ; the feelers turn thicker to¬ 
wards the apex. The fpecies are thirteen, viz. 
i. The coryli is black, with red elytra or cruftaCeous 
wings. 2. The avellana is black, with the bread, feet, 
and°elytra, red. 3. The curculionoides is black, with red 
elytra and bread. The above three fpecies frequent the 
leaves of the hazel and filbert nut-trees. 
4. The Surinamenfis has a double indentation (or two 
teeth) in the top of the elytra. It is a native of Surinam. 
5. The Penfilvanicus is black, with red elytra, a black 
belt round the middle, and another towards the apex, of the 
elytra. It is a native of Philadelphia. 
6. The melanurus is black, with tedaceous elytra, black 
at the apex. It is a native of Sweden. 
7. The betula has faltatory or fpringy legs, and the whole 
body is of a dark-red colour. It frequents the leaves ot the 
birch-tree. 
B. The formicarius is black, with red elytra, and a dou¬ 
ble white belt towards the bafe. Native of Europe. 
9. The fipylus is green, with a hairy bread, and a dou¬ 
ble yellow belt upon the elytra. 
10. The apiarius is bluifh, with red elytra, and three 
black belts. It is a native of Germany. 
11. The mollis is yellowidi and hairy, with pale elytra, 
and three belts, it is a native of Europe. 
12. The ceramboides is of a blackifli red colour, and the 
elytra is furrowed. It frequents the fpongy boletus, a fpe¬ 
cies of mufhroom. 
13. The bupredoides is of a dark-red colour, with a 
globular bread, and nervous elytra. Native of Europe. 
To ATTEM'PER, v. a. [attempero , Lat.] To mingle; 
to weaken by the mixture of fomcthing elfe ; to dilute: 
Attemper'’d funs arife, 
Sweet-beam’d, and (bedding oft through lucid clouds 
A pleading calm. Thamfon. 
To (often; to mollify.—His early providence could like- 
wife have attempered his nature therein. Bacon. 
Thofe finding eyes, attempting ev’ry ray. 
Shone fweetly lambent with celeftial day. Pope. 
To mix injud proportions; to regulate; to fit to fomething: 
She to her gueds doth bounteous banquet dight, 
Attemper'd , goodly, well for health and for delight, Spenfer, 
To ATTEM'PER ATE, v. a. [attempero , Lat,] To 
proportion to fomething.—Hope mud be proportioned and 
attemperate to the promife; if it exceed that temper and 
proportion, it becomes a tumour and tympany of hope. 
Hammond■ 
To ATTEMPT', v. a, [ attenter , Fr.] To attack; to in¬ 
vade ; to.venture upon: 
Who, in all things wife and juft, 
Hinder’d not Satan to attempt the mind 
Of man, with drength entire and free-will arm’d, Milton, 
To try; to endeavour.—I have neverthelefs attempted to 
fend unto you, for the renewing of brotherhood and friend- 
fhip, i Mae. xii, 1 7. 
To Attempt, v, n, To make an attack—Horace his 
monfler, with woman’s head above, and fifty extreme be¬ 
low, anfwers the ftape of the ancient Syrens that attempt* 
td upon UlyiTes, Breton, 
Attempt,/. An attack.—If we be always prepared 
to receive an enemy, we (ball long live in peace and quiet, 
nefs, without any attempts upon us. Bacon,— An effay ; an 
endeavour: 
He would have cry’d; but, hoping that he dreamt, 
Amazement ty’d his tongue, and flopp’d th’ attempt. Dryd, 
Vox. II. No. 84. 
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ATTElMPT' ABLE, adj. Liable to attempts or attacks. 
—The gentleman vouching his to be more fair, virtuous, 
wife, and lefs attemptable, than the rareft of our ladies. 
Shakefpcare. 
A i’TEMPT'ER,/. The perfon that attempts; an in¬ 
vader. An endeavourer.—We are no factors for glory or 
treafure, but difinterefted attempters for the univerfal good. 
GlanviLle. 
AT'TENBY, a town of Sweden, in the ifiand of Oeland. 
To ATTEND', v.a. [attendee, Fr. attendo, Lat.] To 
regard; to fix the mind upon.—The diligent pilot, in a 
dangerous tempeft, doth not attend the unfkilful words of a 
palfenger. Sidney .—To wait on; to accompany as an inte¬ 
rior, or a fervant: 
His companion, youthful Valentine, 
Attends the emperor in his royal court, Shakefpcare. 
To accompany as an enemy.—He was at prefent ftrong 
enough to have flopped or attended Waller in his we (tern 
expedition. Clarendon .—To be prefent with, upon a futn- 
mons. To accompany ; to be appendant to : 
England is fo idly king’d. 
Her feepter lb fantaftically borne. 
That fear attends her not. Skakefpeare. 
To expebt. Thisfenfe is French .—So dreadful a temped, 
as all the people attended therein the very end of the world, 
and judgment-day. Raleigh .—To wait on, as on a charge. 
To be confequent to.—The duke made that unfortunate 
defeent upon Rhe, which was afterwards attended with 
many unprofperous attempts. Clarendon .—To remain to ; 
to await; to be in ftore for.—To him, who hath a prof- 
pebt of the date that attends all men after this, the mea- 
fures of good and evil are changed. Locke .—To wait for 
infidioufly.—Thy interpreter, full of defpight, bloody as 
the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end. Shakefpcare .—• 
To be bent upon any objebt: 
Their hunger thus appeas’d, their care attends 
The doubtful fortune of their abfent friends. Dry fen. 
To Attend, v. n. To yield attention.—Since man can¬ 
not at the fame time attend to two objects, if you employ 
your fpirit upon a book or a bodily labour, you have no 
room left for fenfual temptation. Taylor .—To flay; to 
delay. To wait; to be within reach or call.—If any mi- 
nifter refufed to admit a lebturer recommended by him, he 
was required to attend upon the committee, and not dif- 
charged till the houfes met again. Clarendon. 
ATTEND'ANCE,/. [attendance, Fr.] The abt of wait¬ 
ing on another; or of ferving.—For he, of whom thefe 
things are fp.oken, pertaineth to another tribe, of which 
no man gave attendance at the altar. Heb. vii. 13.—Service. 
Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance 
From thofe that (he calls fervants? ShaJtcjSmre. 
The perfons waiting ; a train. Attention; regard.—Give 
attendance to reading, to exhortation, to dobtrine. 1 Tim. 
iv, 13.—-Expectation: a fenfe now out of v/e _That which 
caufeth bitterhefs in death, is the langnifliing attendance 
and expebtation thereof ere it come. Hooker. 
ATTEND'ANT, adj. [attendant,. Fr] Accompanying 
as Subordinate, or ccnfequential: 
Other funs, perhaps, 
With their attendant moons, thou wilt defery, 
Communicating male and female light. Milton. 
AttendantO ne that attends. One that belongs 
to the train: 
When fp.me gracious monarch dies. 
Soft wiiifpers full and mournful murmurs rife 
Among the lad attendants. Dryden. 
One that waits the pleasure of another, as a fuitor or agent. 
—I endeavour that my reader may not wait long for mv 
meaning: to give an attendant quick dilpatch is a civility. 
Burnet ,—One that is prefent at any tiling.—He was a con¬ 
flat'd attendant at all meetings relating to charity, without 
i K contributing. 
