Attaint
[ә'teint]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.
(v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
(v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
(v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
(p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.
(v.) A touch or hit.
(v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
(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.
(v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
(v.) An infecting influence.
丹尼整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Taint, corrupt, stain.[2]. (Law.) Punish by corruption of blood.
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