Attaint

·v A touch or hit.

II. Attaint ·p.p. Attainted; corrupted.

III. Attaint ·v An infecting influence.

IV. Attaint ·v A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.

V. Attaint ·v A stain or taint; disgrace. ·see Taint.

VI. Attaint ·vt To Attain; to get act; to Hit.

VII. Attaint ·vt To Accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

VIII. Attaint ·vt To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.

IX. Attaint ·vt To find guilty; to Convict;

— said ·esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

X. Attaint ·v 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.

XI. Attaint ·vt To Stain; to Obscure; to Sully; to Disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

XII. Attaint ·vt 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.