attaint
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Nor if happily boys declare Thy dominion attaint, refuse, 130 Youth, the nuts to be flinging.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green
With such janissaries and a penal code comprising everything in its elastic obscurity, there was no need for exceptional laws in order to attaint all Paris.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
Thou canst attaint even those among the watch Of most integrity, and teach even those To waver who had thought to waver never.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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