attaint
attaint has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.
Definitions
- 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.