ppl. a. [f. ATTAINT v. + -ED; taking place of the earlier ATTAINT.]

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  † 1.  Hit, struck. Obs.

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1558.  Warde, 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.

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  2.  Subjected to ATTAINDER.

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1596.  Spenser, State Irel. There are more attaynted landes, concealed from her Majestie.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus, III. xxiii. 254. The goods of attainted Citizens.

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a. 1797.  H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. III. (1845), I. iv. 53. Clemency … to some attainted Jacobite families.

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1868.  Milman, St. Paul’s, ii. 33. To abstain from all communion with the attainted prelate.

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  † 3.  Touched or affected with sickness, passion, etc.

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1509.  Hawes, Past. Pleas., XIX. xiii. How your hert is faynted, Wyth fervent love so surely attaynted.

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1593.  G. Harvey, New Let., in Archaica (1813), II. 12. So attainted with the French pox.

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  † 4.  Tainted, corrupted. Obs.

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1580.  Tusser, Husb., lxxv. viii. Where meate is attainted, there cookrie is naught.

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1580.  Baret, Alv., A 694. Attaynted and stinkyng fleshe.

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