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attainted, ppl. a.|əˈteɪntɪd|
[f. attaint v. + -ed; taking place of the earlier attaint.]
†1. Hit, struck. Obs.
1558Warde Alexis' Secr. (1568) 18 a, One of the Mariners so attainted with the stroke of a gone that he had his arme brused and broken.
2. Subjected to attainder.
1596Spenser State Irel., There are more attaynted landes, concealed from her Majestie. 1618Bolton Florus iii. xxiii. 254 The goods of attainted Citizens. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. III (1845) I. iv. 53 Clemency..to some attainted Jacobite families. 1868Milman St. Paul's ii. 33 To abstain from all communion with the attainted prelate.
†3. Touched or affected with sickness, passion, etc.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xix. xiii, How your hert is faynted, Wyth fervent love so surely attaynted. 1593G. Harvey New Let. in Archaica (1813) II. 12 So attainted with the French pox.
†4. Tainted, corrupted. Obs.
1580Tusser Husb. lxxv. viii, Where meate is attainted, there cookrie is naught. 1580Baret Alv. A 694 Attaynted and stinkyng fleshe. |