attaint

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Convicted, attainted.
2. sıfat Attainted; corrupted.

   “My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love,”

3. fiil To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.

   “Tom Truth is attainted. All he has — not much — is forfeit to the king, and he is entitled to nothing but a traitorʼs death.”

4. fiil To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.

   “CHARLES STUART. Attainted and proscribed by name and grade in his British regiment.”

5. fiil To taint; to corrupt, sully.

   “Amoret right fearefull was and faint, / Lest she with blame her honor should attaint […].”

6. isim A blow or strike, especially in jousting.

   “At the moment of impact, the king’s eyes are open, his body braced for the atteint; he takes the blow perfectly, its force absorbed by a body securely armoured, moving in the right direction, moving at the right speed.”

7. isim A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow.
8. isim The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict.