attaint

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Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Even to have kicked an outsider might have been held to attaint the foot concerned in that operation; so that, perhaps, it would have required an act of parliament to restore its purity of blood.

From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

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 Burke, Edmund

The birds methinks tune naught but moan, The winds breathe naught but bitter plaint, The beasts forsake their dens to groan; Birds, winds, and beasts, what doth my loss your powers attaint?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote

Rosader's third Sonnet     Of virtuous love myself may boast alone,       Since no suspect my service may attaint:     For perfect fair she is the only one,       Whom I esteem for my belovèd saint.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey