{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "əˈtɛmpt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/attempt.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/attempt.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Late 14th century, as Middle English attempten, from Old French atempter, from Latin attemptō (“I try, solicit”), from ad (“to”) + temptare, more correctly tentare (“to try”); see tempt.\nThe noun is from the 1530s, the sense \"an assault on somebody's life, assassination attempt\" (French attentat) is from 1580." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To try.\nI attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.\nto attempt an escape from prison\nA group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn't make it to the top.\n1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith\nSomething attempted, something done, / Has earned a night's repose.\n2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.\nc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Yet since I see you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.\n1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., , →OCLC, page 102:It made the laughter of an afternoon / That Vivien should attempt the blameless king." }, { "mean": "(archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.\none who attempts the virtue of a woman\nc. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: / Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute." }, { "mean": "(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.\nto attempt the enemy's camp\n1830, John Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic\nwithout attempting his adversary's life" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The action of trying at something. \nWe made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn't manage.\nThis poem is much better than the feeble attempt of mine.\nIt was worth the attempt.\nNo matter how many failed attempts we made, we maintained a positive attitude and tried again and again until we succeeded.\n2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 87:But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea" }, { "mean": "An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt. \n1584 No man can charge us of any attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "attempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. 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