attentat

noun /ˌætɑnˈtɑː/

1. Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

   obsolete

   All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h).

2. Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.

   obsolete

3. An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.

   obsolete

   Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes.

Where it comes from

A variant of attemptate assimilated to Latin attentātus and French attentat.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry attentat (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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