attame

English

Etymology

Inherited from the Middle English attāmen, itself borrowed from the Old French atamer, itself inherited from the Latin attāminō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈteɪm/

Verb

attame (third-person singular simple present attames, present participle attaming, simple past and past participle attamed)

(obsolete) To pierce; to attack.
(obsolete) To broach; to begin.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologue of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
  And right anon his tale he hath atamed.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for attame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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