ATTORNED | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Attorn

Speech Type: Verb

Etymology:

Middle English (in the senses ‘turn, change, transform’): from Old French atorner ‘appoint, assign’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + torner ‘to turn’. The spelling with o rather than u or ou, as might have been expected in English, is due to the late Anglo-Norman French form attorner, adopted in legal use

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: əˈtəːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:

formally make or acknowledge a transfer of something.

Short Definition:

formally make or acknowledge transfer of something

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