ATTAINT
\ɐtˈe͡ɪnt], \ɐtˈeɪnt], \ɐ_t_ˈeɪ_n_t]\
Definitions of ATTAINT
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- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
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To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
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To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
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Attainted; corrupted.
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A touch or hit.
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A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
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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.
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A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
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An infecting influence.
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To find guilty; to convict; - said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
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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.
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To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
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To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
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To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
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Attainted; corrupted.
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A touch or hit.
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A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
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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.
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A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
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An infecting influence.
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To find guilty; to convict; - said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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