Attaint, v. t. [OE. atteynten to convict, fr. atteynt, OF. ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were influenced by a supposed connection with taint. See Attain, Attainder.].
To attain; to get act; to hit. [1913 Webster]
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. [1913 Webster]
"Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition."
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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]
"No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses."
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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]
"My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love."
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To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. [1913 Webster]
"For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Ph/bus' golden face it did attaint."
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"Lest she with blame her honor should attaint."
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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.