English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Attaint
(v. t.)
To attain; to get act; to hit.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on
trial for giving a false verdict.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly
resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect
of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable
act.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease
or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
Attaint
(v. t.)
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud
with infamy.
Attaint
(p. p.)
Attainted; corrupted.
Attaint
(v.)
A touch or hit.
Attaint
(v.)
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by
overreaching.
Attaint
(v.)
A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a
jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the
convicting of the jury so tried.
Attaint
(v.)
A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
Attaint
(v.)
An infecting influence.