Attaint

imp. & p. p. Attainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Attainting

1. To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.]
2. To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. (Old Law) [Obs.]

   Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition.

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. (Law)

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

4. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [Archaic]
5. 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.

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

   For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phbus' golden face it did attaint.

   Lest she with blame her honor should attaint.

1. Attainted; corrupted. [Obs.]

1. A touch or hit.
2. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching. (Far.)
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. (Law)
4. A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
5. An infecting influence. [R.]