to achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.-to gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.-to get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.-to reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.-to overtake.-to reach in excellence or degree; to equal.-to come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.-to come or arrive, by an effort of mind.-attainment.