attorney 1 (a different word from the next, this being from O Fr. ‘atorné’, that from ‘atornée’)
1.
agent, deputy
Err. V. i. 100
“I . . . will have no
attorney but myself.”
2.
advocate, pleader
All'sW. II. ii. 24,
R3 IV. iv. 414
“Be the attorney of my
love to her,”
Ven. 335.
3.
“attorney-general,”
deputy under a general commission and representing
his principal in all legal matters R2 II. i. 204.