Word Meanings - ATTAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone. (more info) ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4,

Additional info about word: ATTAINT

To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone. (more info) ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were influenced by a supposed connection with taint. See Attain, 1. To attain; to get act; to hit.

Related words: (words related to ATTAINT)

• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• CONVICT
  Proved or found guilty; convicted. Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
• CONVICTIVE
  Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• CONVICTIBLE
  Capable of being convicted. Ash.
• TRIALOGUE
  A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
• SUFFICIENTLY
  To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• CONVICTISM
  The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.