attaint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To impart stigma to; disgrace: "No breath of calumny ever attainted the personal purity of Savonarola” ( Henry Hart Milman).
2. v. To pass a sentence of attainder against.
3. v. Archaic To infect or corrupt, as with illness or vice.
4. v. Archaic To accuse.
5. n. Obsolete Attainder.
6. n. Archaic A disgrace; a stigma.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To touch; hit in tilting.
2. To attain; ascertain.
3. To convict (a jury) of having given a false verdict.
4. To affect with attainder; pass judgment on, as on one found guilty of a crime, as felony or treason, involving forfeiture of civil privileges.
5. To accuse: with of: as, to attaint a person of sorcery.
6. To affect with any passion or emotion.
7. To taint; disgrace; cloud with infamy; stain; corrupt.
8. Attainted; convicted.
9. Tainted; corrupted; infected; attacked.
10. n. The act of touching or hitting; specifically, in tilting, a hit.
11. n. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse caused by overreaching.
12. n. An ancient legal process instituted for reversing a false verdict given by a jury; conviction of a jury for giving such a verdict.
13. n. In old law: A conviction. Impeachment.
14. n. Infection; injurious or deleterious action.
15. n. Attainder.
16. n. A stain, spot, or taint; hence, a disgrace; an imputation involving dishonor.

Wiktionary

1. adj. obsolete Convicted, attainted.
2. v. archaic To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.
3. v. archaic To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.
4. v. To taint; to corrupt, sully.
5. n. archaic A blow or strike, especially in jousting.
6. n. A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow
7. n. obsolete, law The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To attain; to get act; to hit.
2. v. (Old Law), obsolete To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
3. v. (Law) 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.
4. v. Archaic To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
5. v. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
6. v. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
7. obsolete Attainted; corrupted.
8. n. A touch or hit.
9. n. (Far.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
10. n. (Law) 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.
11. n. A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
12. n. rare An infecting influence.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bring shame or dishonor upon
2. v. condemn by attainder