[f. ATTAINT v., after (Eng.)med.L. attinctūra, f. attinctus, when this was used to translate OF. atteint.]

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  1.  = ATTAINTMENT, ATTAINDER.

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1538.  Leland, Itin., VII. 71. It was the Lord Lovel’s Pocession. Sens by Attainture it cam by gift to Knolls.

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1580.  Baret, Alv., A 694. Attaynture, or bloud stained and corrupted, Sanies, Tinctura, Attinctura.

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1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., I. ii. 105. Her Attainture will be Humphreyes fall.

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a. 1655.  R. Hall, in Fuller, Ch. Hist., V. III. 110. At his attainture the King’s Officers seised on all he had.

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  2.  fig. Imputation of dishonor; stain.

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1608.  Chapman, Byron’s Trag., III. i. Plays, 1873, II. 268. Without the least attainture of your valour.

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1644.  Milton, Judgm. Bucer (1851), 304. Their pure unblamable Spirits … they must attaint with new Attaintures.

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