to attain; to get act; to hit.-to find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.-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 accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.-to affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.-to stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.-attainted; corrupted.-a touch or hit.-a blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.-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.-a stain or taint; disgrace. see taint.-an infecting influence.