Crossword clues for attaint
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attaint \At*taint"\, p. p.
Attainted; corrupted. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Attaint \At*taint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Attainting.] [OE. atteynten to convict, fr. atteynt, OF. ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were influenced by a supposed connection with taint. See Attain, Attainder.]
To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.]
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(Old Law) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. [Obs.]
Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition.
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(Law) 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.
No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses.
--Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
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To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love.
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To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Ph?bus' golden face it did attaint.
--Spenser.Lest she with blame her honor should attaint.
--Spenser.
Attaint \At*taint"\, n. [OF. attainte. See Attaint, v.]
A touch or hit.
--Sir W. Scott.(Far.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
--White.(Law) 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.
--Bouvier.A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
--Shak.An infecting influence. [R.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) convicted, attainted. 2 (context obsolete English) Attainted; corrupted. n. 1 (context archaic English) A blow or strike, especially in jousting. 2 A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow 3 (context obsolete legal English) The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict v
1 (context archaic English) To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights. 2 (context archaic English) To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour. 3 (context now rare English) To taint; to corrupt, sully.
WordNet
Usage examples of "attaint".
Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Being pressed to give a more explicit answer, they replied, that if a person were attainted in that manner, the attainder could never afterwards be brought in question, but must remain good in law.
By like manner of meane, was sentence given between the noble Greekes: For the noble and valiant personage Palamedes was convicted and attainted of treason, by false perswasion and accusation, and Ulisses being but of base condition, was preferred in Martiall prowesse above great Ajax.
The pith of the matter was that the Sieur Brian Philip Francis de la Montaigne proclaimed before all men the greater chivalry and skill at arms of the knights of France and of Dauphiny, and likewise the greater fairness of the ladies of France and Dauphiny, and would there defend those sayings with his body without fear or attaint as to the truth of the same.
The King, in spite of all the pressure brought to bear upon him, refused to restore the estates of Falworth and Easterbridge--the latter of which had again reverted to the crown upon the death of the Earl of Alban without issue--upon the grounds that they had been forfeited not because of the attaint of treason, but because of Lord Falworth having refused to respond to the citation of the courts.
When I proscribe the Boar clan and attaint their lands, it will go ill with her if she falls under the dominion of the proclamation.
Until Sir James had told him of the matter in his office that day he had never known that his father was attainted and outlawed.
Thy father is attainted, and one whisper of where he lieth hid would bring him thence to the Tower, and haply to the block.
And at the same time that he thus recognized how poor was their lot, how dependent upon the charity of others, he also recognized how generous was the friendship of Prior Edward, who perilled his own safety so greatly in affording the family of the attainted Lord an asylum in its bitter hour of need and peril.
But now, sire, Heaven hath sent me help, and therefore I do acclaim before thee that my accuser, William Bushy Brookhurst, Earl of Alban, is a foul and an attainted liar in all that he hath accused me of.
December 2d by the High Court of Justice, and which declares Louis Bonaparte attainted with the Crime of High Treason, shall be published and executed.
I am his Commissioner in Languedoc, and the prisoners attainted with high treason are my property.
Here is one poor life justly condemned to extinction, and I, a king and a soldier, who have slain thousands by my command, and scores with my own hand, am to have no power over it, although the honour of my arms, of my house, of my very Queen, hath been attainted by the culprit.
How can I so the cause of Virtue aid, Who am myself attainted and afraid?