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v. To impart stigma to; disgrace: "No breath of calumny ever attainted the personal purity of Savonarola” ( Henry Hart Milman).

v. To pass a sentence of attainder against.

v. Archaic To infect or corrupt, as with illness or vice.

v. Archaic To accuse.

n. Obsolete Attainder.

n. Archaic A disgrace; a stigma.

adj. Convicted, attainted.

v. To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.

v. To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.

v. To taint; to corrupt, sully.

n. A blow or strike, especially in jousting.

n. A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow

n. The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict

v. To attain; to get act; to hit.

v. To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

v. 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.

v. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

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

v. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

past-participle. Attainted; corrupted.

n. A touch or hit.

n. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.

n. 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.

n. A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.

n. An infecting influence.

To touch; hit in tilting.

To attain; ascertain.

To convict (a jury) of having given a false verdict.

To affect with attainder; pass judgment on, as on one found guilty of a crime, as felony or treason, involving forfeiture of civil privileges.

To accuse: with of: as, to attaint a person of sorcery.

To affect with any passion or emotion.

To taint; disgrace; cloud with infamy; stain; corrupt.

Attainted; convicted.

Tainted; corrupted; infected; attacked.

n. The act of touching or hitting; specifically, in tilting, a hit.

n. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse caused by overreaching.

n. An ancient legal process instituted for reversing a false verdict given by a jury; conviction of a jury for giving such a verdict.

n. In old law: A conviction. Impeachment.

n. Infection; injurious or deleterious action.

n. Attainder.

n. A stain, spot, or taint; hence, a disgrace; an imputation involving dishonor.

v. bring shame or dishonor upon

v. condemn by attainder

"One of their antagonists was overthrown and both the others failed in the attaint, that is, in striking the helmet and shield of their antagonist firmly and strongly with the lance held in a direct line, so that the weapon might break unless the champion was overthrown."

attainted    attainting    attaints   

condemn   

taint   

befoul    defile    foul    maculate   

convict    accuse    stain    obscure    sully    disgrace    attainted    corrupted    contaminate    contamination