To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [1913 Webster]
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. [1913 Webster]
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. [1913 Webster]
, p. p.
Attainted; corrupted. Shak. [1913 Webster]
, n. Array
A touch or hit. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching. White. [1913 Webster]
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. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint. Shak. [1913 Webster]
VB
condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate, nonsuit, disapprove, accuse, stand condemned.