Word Meaning

attaint definition and meaning

v. t. To attain; to get act; to hit.
v. t. To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
v. t. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
v. t. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
p. p. Attainted; corrupted.
v. A touch or hit.
v. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
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.
v. A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
v. An infecting influence.