Crossword clues for attainted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
1 Subject to attainder; condemned to death or outlawry, hence stripped of one's titles, hereditary rights, or possessions. 2 (context now rare English) tainted, corrupted. v
(en-past of: attaint)
Usage examples of "attainted".
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.
Magnus said, "who was attainted for treason—but he's Tuan's older brother, so Tuan interceded for him with Catharine.
Rod recognized him—the King's elder brother Anselm, attainted for treason, demoted to the rank of squire, and doomed to live out his life in obscurity.
Anselm's wife must have been a very unusual woman indeed, one who could have married much better than an attainted nobleman who could give her no better life than any yeoman could—for she must have been radiantly beautiful.
The king stands in your father's place, since your brother is an attainted traitor.
Myles keyed himself up to the effort, and then blurted out, "Thou art attainted with shame.
Though every particular of circumstance should be fulfilled in the ceremony, it would have been ruination to the Earl's plans to have the knowledge come prematurely to the King that Myles was the son of the attainted Lord Falworth.
He told Myles how, when his father was attainted of high-treason, and his estates forfeited to the crown, the King had granted the barony of Easterbridge to the then newly created Earl of Alban in spite of all the efforts of Lord Falworth's friends to the contrary.
He is, as my Lord of Mackworth said, the whilom Baron Falworth, the outlawed, attainted traitor.
Meantime," said he, turning to the Earl Marshal, who was present, "I give thee this attainted Lord in charge.
Ever since she had released the prophecies of Ohalu onto the Bajoran civilian comnet, and had been Attainted by Vedek Yevir Linjarin, her interactions with most Bajorans had been frosty at best.
The woman had already been cast out from the Bajoran faith—Attainted—and her military commission was the only power she had left.