attaint

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V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit†. disapprove &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

What simple thief brags of his own attaint?

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

And the knight was inclined to attaint his lady for a certain cruelty in the matter; she was being something less than fair to the Unspeakable Perk.

From The Unspeakable Perk by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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 Green, John Richard