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What (who) is Attaint - definition
Attaint
·v A touch or hit.
II. Attaint ·p.p. Attainted; corrupted.
III. Attaint ·v An infecting influence.
IV. Attaint ·v A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
V. Attaint ·v A stain or taint; disgrace. ·see Taint.
VII. Attaint ·vt To Accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
VIII. Attaint ·vt To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
IX. Attaint ·vt To find guilty; to Convict;
- said ·esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
X. Attaint ·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.
XII. Attaint ·vt 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.
attaint
v. a.
1.
Taint, corrupt, stain, disgrace, pollute, cloud with infamy.
2.
(Law.) Punish by corruption of blood.
attaint
¦ verb
1. historical subject to attainder.
2. archaic (of a disease) affect or infect.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'touch, attain'): from obs. attaint (adjective), from OFr. ataint, ateint, past participle of ateindre (see attain).
