Attainder: Definition and part of speech

Attainder

n. A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.
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.

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.

n. That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.
n. The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.

n. A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.
n. A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
n. An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
n. The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

a. Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.
a. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
a. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.