attainture
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin attinctūra, used to translate Old French ateint, from Vulgar Latin *attinctus (perfect passive participle of Latin attingō).
Noun edit
attainture (plural attaintures)
- (obsolete) A state of being found guilty of an offence.
- Synonyms: attainder, attaintment, condemnation
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- […] thus, I fear, at last
Hume’s knavery will be the duchess’ wreck,
And her attainture will be Humphrey’s fall:
- 1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain, or A Chorographicall Description […] by William Camden, London: George Latham, “The O-Neales, and their rebellions in our time,” p. 122,[1]
- The title and place of Earle of Tir-Oen was presently granted: but as touching the inheritance, considering that upon the forfaiture and attainture of Shan O-Neale the Kings of England were invested therein, the matter was referred unto Queene Elizabeth:
- (obsolete) Imputation of dishonour.
- 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron[2], London: Thomas Thorppe, act III, scene 1:
- […] you may come,
And take more strickt directions from his highnesse,
Then he thinkes fit his letters should containe,
Without the least attainture of your valure;
- 1644, John Milton, “To the Parliament”, in The Judgement of Martin Bucer […] now Englisht[3], London:
- […] they must dig up the good name of these prime worthies […] and brand them as the Papists did thir bodies; and those thir pure unblamable spirits, which live not only in heaven, but in thir writings, they must attaint with new attaintures which no Protestant ever before aspers’t them with.
- (obsolete) Unhealthy bodily condition.
- Synonym: disease
- 1630, Gervase Markham, “Another Receipt for any extraordinary Cold, dry Cough, or pursicknesse in a Horse […] ”, in Markhams Faithfull Farrier[4], London: Michael Sparke, page 68:
- […] if the infirmitie b[e] old and dangerous, or if there b[e] any attainture in the Lungs or L[i]uer […]
- 1676, John Halfpenny, “General Observations, Helps and advertisements, for any man when he goeth about to buy an Horse”, in The Gentlemans Jockey[5], London: Hen. Twyford and Nath. Brook, page 34:
- But because there is but one Truth, and one perfection, I will, under the description of the perfect Horse, that is untainted, shew all the imperfections and attaintures, that either nature or mischance can put upon the Horse of greatest deformity.