| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb attaint.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (attaint) | 1. Bring shame or dishonor upon.[Wordnet]. 2. Condemn by attainder; "the man was attainted".[Wordnet]. 3. To attain; to get act; to hit.[Websters]. 4. To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.[Websters]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.[Websters]. 7. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.[Websters]. 8. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.[Websters]. 9. Attainted; corrupted.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: attainting, attainted, attaints, attainter, attainters, attaintingly and attaintedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ATTAINTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ATTAINTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Staining; corrupting; rendering infamous by judicial act; depriving of inheritable blood.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of attaint. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: attaint
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Writ of attaint | Writ of attaint, an obsolete method of procedure in English law, for inquiring by a jury of twenty-four whether a false verdict had been given in a trial before an ordinary jury of twelve. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: attaint
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Autrefois attaint | Law | AUTREFOIS ATTAINT, crim. law. 1. Formerly attainted. 2. This is a good plea in bar, where a second trial would be quite superfluous. Co. Litt. 390 b, note 2; 4 Bl. Com. 336. Where, therefore, any advantage either to public justice, or private individuals, would arise from a second prosecution, the plea will not prevent it; as where the criminal is indicted for treason after an attainder of felony, in which case the punishment will be more severe and more extensive. 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 464. (references) | |
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