"Attaint" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In old English practice. A writ which lay to inquire whether a jury of twelve men had given a false verdict, iu or-der that the judgment might be reversed. 3 91. Comm. 402; Bract, fol. 288b-292. This inquiry was made by a grand assise or jury
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.
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease
or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on
trial for giving a false verdict.
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.
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud
with infamy.
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable
act.
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by
overreaching.
An infecting influence.
To attain; to get act; to hit.
A touch or hit.
Attainted; corrupted.
A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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