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attorn
[ uh-turn ]
verb (used without object)
- to acknowledge the relation of a tenant to a new landlord.
verb (used with object)
- to turn over to another; transfer.
attorn
/ 蓹藞迟蓽藧苍 /
verb
- law to acknowledge a new owner of land as one's landlord
- feudal history to transfer allegiance or do homage to a new lord
Derived Forms
- 补迟藞迟辞谤苍尘别苍迟, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补迟路迟辞谤苍顎僲别苍迟 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of attorn1
Example Sentences
The tenants on the land had all long ago attorned to them, father and son, from time out of mind, paying rent regularly.
But he hankered after his elder Brother鈥檚 Estate, and, on his Death, suddenly got the Tenants to attorn to him, and basely dispossessed his Nephew.
When the Gaelic League decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory, it attorned to this tyranny.
A strong advocate of Repeal and tenant-right, he gradually attorned to the Young Irelanders when he discovered that the Whig Government had bought up Conciliation Hall.
The Judge on the bench he looked awfully stern; The District Attorney began to attorn; The witnesses lied and the lawyers鈥擮 my!鈥
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