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atorner
Old French · medieval
"to appoint, to assign"
to appoint, to assign, from a- (to) and torner (to turn)
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Stage 2 of 2
attorney
English · 1300s
"a person legally appointed to act on another's behalf"
settled as the English word for one legally appointed to act for another
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