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attorn
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb attorn has 1 sense
- attorn(v = verb.cognition) Array - acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord; "he was attorned by the tenants" is one way to acknowledge, admit
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CIDE DICTIONARY
attorn, v. i. [OF. atorner, aturner, atourner, to direct, prepare, dispose, attorn (cf. OE. atornen to return, adorn); à (L. ad) + torner to turn; cf. LL. attornare to commit business to another, to attorn; ad + tornare to turn, L. tornare to turn in a lathe, to round off. See Turn, v. t. ].
- To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted. [1913 Webster]
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