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attaint vt. 宣告剥夺财产权,损坏,玷污
n. 私权丧失,污点,耻辱 宣告剥夺财产权,损坏,玷污私权丧失,污点,耻辱 attaint v 1: bring shame or dishonor upon; " he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" [ synonym: { dishonor}, { disgrace}, { dishonour}, { attaint}, { shame}] [ ant: { honor}, { honour}, { reward}] 2: condemn by attainder; " the man was attainted" Attaint \ At* taint"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Attainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Attainting}.] [ OE. atteynten to convict, fr. atteynt, OF. ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were influenced by a supposed connection with taint. See { Attain}, { Attainder}.] 1. To attain; to get act; to hit. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Old Law) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( 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. [ 1913 Webster] No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. -- Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] 5. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. [ 1913 Webster] My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. [ 1913 Webster] For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Ph? bus' golden face it did attaint. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster]
Attaint \ At* taint"\, p. p. Attainted; corrupted. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Attaint \ At* taint"\, n. [ OF. attainte. See { Attaint}, v.] 1. A touch or hit. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Far.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching. -- White. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( 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. -- Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A stain or taint; disgrace. See { Taint}. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. An infecting influence. [ R.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] ATTAINT, English law. 1. Atinctus, attainted, stained, or blackened. 2. Awrit which lies to inquire whether a jury of twelve men gave a falseverdict. Bract. lib. 4, tr. 1, c. 134; Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22, Sec. 8. 2. It was a trial by jury of twenty- four men empanelled to try thegoodness, of a former verdict. 3 Bl. Com. 351; 3 Gilb. Ev. by Lofft, 1146. See Assize.
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