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Attain
Attain At*tain", v. i.
1. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or
efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
If by any means they might attain to Phenice. --Acts
xxvii. 12.
Nor nearer might the dogs attain. --Sir W.
Scott.
To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber.
--Cowper.
Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as
this. --J. R. Green.
2. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high,
I can not attain unto it. --Ps. cxxxix.
6.
AttainAttain At*tain" ([a^]t*t[=a]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Attained (-t[=a]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Attaining.] [Of.
atteinen, atteignen, atainen, OF. ateindre, ataindre, F.
atteindre, fr. L. attingere; ad + tangere to touch, reach.
See Tangent, and cf. Attinge, Attaint.]
1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to
gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the
means? --Abp.
Tillotson.
2. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. [Obs. with a
material object.] --Chaucer.
3. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. [Obs.]
Not well attaining his meaning. --Fuller.
4. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive
at. ``Canaan he now attains.' --Milton.
5. To overtake. [Obs.] --Bacon.
6. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
Syn: To Attain, Obtain, Procure.
Usage: Attain always implies an effort toward an object.
Hence it is not synonymous with obtain and procure,
which do not necessarily imply such effort or motion.
We procure or obtain a thing by purchase or loan, and
we obtain by inheritance, but we do not attain it by
such means. Attain
Attain At*tain", n.
Attainment. [Obs.]
Meaning of Attains from wikipedia
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Admission to the bar in the
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granting of
permission by a
particular court system to a
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Buddhahood is too
difficult to
attain. It
takes a
hundred thousand nayutas of koṭis of
kalpas to
become a Buddha.
Since few
people attain Buddhahood in this world...
- (omniscience) and self
knowledge called Brahmajnana. When a
Brahmarshi dies he
attains Paramukti and
frees himself from Samsara, the
cycle of
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- the
Communist party,
often enshrined in the
constitution if the
party attains state power.
Vladimir Lenin po****rised
political vanguardism as conceptualised...
- an
election commissioner can be a
maximum of six
years or till he/she
attains sixty five
years of age.
Election Commissioners are
usually members of...
- saṃsāra, the
cycle of
lives with dukkha. By
cutting through all fetters, one
attains nibbāna (Pali; Skt.: निर्वाण, nirvāṇa).
Throughout the Pali canon, the...
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marked by the
result of one's karma. It is
believed that a human's soul
attains moksha, and
hence breaks the
cycle of
rebirth when
cremated here. The ghat...
- one
cubic centimetre of
water at 3.98 °C (the
temperature at
which it
attains its
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- aura
which Buddhists believe emanated from the body of the
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