Part 753

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Obtainable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not <b>attainable</b> in the country. <i>Marshall.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Attainableness</h1> <Xpage=98>

<hw>At*tain"a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being attainable; attainability.</def>

<h1>Attainder</h1> <Xpage=98>

<hw>At*tain"der</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>ataindre</ets>, <ets>ateindre</ets>, to accuse, convict. <ets>Attainder</ets> is often erroneously referred to F. <ets>teindre</ets> tie stain. See <er>Attaint</er>, <er>Attain</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; <as>as, an act of <ex>attainder</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Abbott.</i>

<note>&hand; Formerly <i>attainder</i> was the inseparable consequence of a judicial or legislative sentence for treason or felony, and involved the forfeiture of all the real and personal property of the condemned person, and such "corruption of blood" that he could neither receive nor transmit by inheritance, nor could he sue or testify in any court, or claim any legal protection or rights. In England <i>attainders</i> are now abolished, and in the United States the Constitution provides that no bill of attainder shall be passed; and no attainder of treason (in consequence of a judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He lived from all <b>attainder</b> of suspect. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Bill of attainder</col>, <cd>a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.</cd></cs>

<h1>Attainment</h1> <Xpage=98>

<hw>At*tain"ment</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>attainment</b> of every desired object. <i>Sir W. Jones.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; <plu>(pl.)</plu>, mental acquirements; knowledge; <as>as, literary and scientific <ex>attainments</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Attaint</h1> <Xpage=98>

<hw>At*taint"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Attainted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Attainting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>atteynten</ets> to convict, fr. <ets>atteynt</ets>, OF. <ets>ateint</ets>, p. p. of <ets>ateindre</ets>, <ets>ataindre</ets>. The meanings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were influenced by a supposed connection with <ets>taint</ets>. See <er>Attain</er>, <er>Attainder</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To attain; to get act; to hit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Old Law)</fld> <def>To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Upon sufficient proof <b>attainted</b> of some open act by men of his own condition. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>No person shall be <b>attainted</b> of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. <i>Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.</def>

<blockquote>My tender youth was never yet <b>attaint</b> With any passion of inflaming love. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.</def>

<blockquote>For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Ph<?/bus' golden face it did <b>attaint</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Lest she with blame her honor should <b>attaint</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Attaint</h1> <Xpage=98>