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Attaint   Listen
verb
Attaint  v. t.  (past & past part. attainted; pres. part. attainting)  
1.
To attain; to get act; to hit. (Obs.)
2.
(Old Law) To find guilty; to convict; said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. (Obs.) "Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition."
3.
(Law) 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. "No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses."
4.
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. (Archaic)
5.
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. "My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love."
6.
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. "Lest she with blame her honor should attaint."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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Words linked to "Attaint" :   defile, disgrace, befoul, condemn, maculate, honor, foul, dishonor



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