Attaint
- v. An infecting influence.
- v. t. To attain; to get act; to hit.
- v. t. To find guilty; to convict; — said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
- 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.
- v. t. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
- v. t. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
- v. t. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
- p. p. Attainted; corrupted.
- v. A touch or hit.
- v. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
- 1v. 1 An infecting influence.
- 1v. t. 1 To attain; to get act; to hit.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.