Attaint

To attain; to get act; to hit.

To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

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.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.

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

Attainted; corrupted.

A touch or hit.

A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.

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.

A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.

An infecting influence.