Attaint



ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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.
5.
An infecting influence.
verb
1.
(TRANSITIVE) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
2.
(TRANSITIVE) To attain; to get act; to hit.
3.
(TRANSITIVE) 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.
(TRANSITIVE) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
5.
(TRANSITIVE) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
6.
(TRANSITIVE) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
1.
Attainted, corrupted