v a touch or hit.
2. attaint ·p.p. attainted; corrupted.
3. attaint ·v an infecting influence.
4. attaint ·v a blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
5. attaint ·v a stain or taint; disgrace. ·see taint.
6. attaint ·vt to attain; to get act; to hit.
7. attaint ·vt to accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
8. attaint ·vt to affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
9. attaint ·vt to find guilty; to convict;
said ·esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
10. 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.
11. attaint ·vt to stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
12. 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.