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Attaint [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A stain, spot or taint. [See taint.]

2. Any thing injurious; that which impairs. obsolete

3. A blow or wound on the hinder feet of a horse.

4. A writ which lies after judgment against a jury for giving a false verdict in any court of record.

Attaint [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To taint or corrupt; to extinguish the pure or inheritable blood of a person found guilty of treason or felony, by confession, battle, or verdict, and consequent sentence of death, or by special act of Parliament.

2. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses, etc.

3. To taint, as the credit of jurors, convicted of giving a false verdict. This is done by special writ of attaint The conviction of such a crime attaints the reputation of jurors, and renders them infamous.

4. To disgrace; to cloud with infamy; to stain.

5. To taint or corrupt.

Attaint [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Attainted; corrupted.

Attaint [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A touch or hit.

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

3. 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.

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

5. An infecting influence.

Attaint [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

Attainted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stained; corrupted; rendered infamous; rendered incapable of inheriting.

Attainted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Attaint

Attainting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Staining; corrupting; rendering infamous by judicial act; depriving of inheritable blood.

Attainting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Attaint

Attaintment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The being attainted.

Attaintment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Attainder; attainture; conviction.

Attainture [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A staining or rendering infamous; reproach; imputation.

Attainture [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Attainder; disgrace.