Definition of attaint

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Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..

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Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching..
Attainted :: Attainted (imp. & p. p.) of Attain.
Attaint :: Attaint (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
Attaintment :: Attaintment (n.) Attainder; attainture; conviction.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.
Attaint :: 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 :: Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
Attaint :: 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 :: Attaint (v.) A touch or hit.
Attainting :: Attainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attain.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Attainture :: Attainture (n.) Attainder; disgrace.
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