Attire. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries specially head-dress, head-gear. ‘Attired with stars’ in Milton’s beautiful lines On Time is not, clothed with stars, but, crowned with them; compare Rev. xii. 1: ‘upon her head a crown of twelve stars.’
She tore her attire from her head, and rent her golden hair.—The Seven Champions, b. ii. c. 13.
With the linen mitre shall he be attired.—Lev. xvi. 4. (A. V.)
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads.—Ezek. xxiii. 15 (A. V.)
The heralds call the Horns of a Stag or Buck his Attire.—Bradley, Fam. Dict. s. v.
Attorney. Seldom used now except of the attorney at law; being one, according to Blackstone’s definition, ‘who is put in the place, stead, or turn of another to manage his matters of law;’ and even in this sense it is going out of honour, and giving way to ‘solicitor.’ But formerly any who in any cause acted in the room, behalf, or turn of another would be called his ‘attorney;’ thus Phillips (New World of Words) defines attorney, ‘one appointed by another man to do anything in his stead, or to take upon him the charge of his business in his absence;’ and in proof of what high use the word might have, I need but refer to the quotation which immediately follows:
Our everlasting and only High Bishop; our only attorney, our mediator, only peacemaker between God and men.—A Short Catechism, 1553.
Attorneys are denied me,
And therefore personally I lay my claim
To my inheritance of free descent.