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Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..

Taint :: Taint (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect..

Jacobinize :: "Jacobinize (v. t.) To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism..

Acatalepsy :: Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability..

Will :: Will (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, I will denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when will is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, You will go, or He will go, describes a future event as a fact only. To e

Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather..

Taintworm :: Taintworm (n.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

Smutty :: Smutty (superl.) Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn..

Positiveness :: Positiveness (n.) The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a..

Anxiously :: Anxiously (adv.) In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

Assuredness :: Assuredness (n.) The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Sappy :: Sappy (a.) Musty; tainted.

Perspective :: Perspective (a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects..

Taint :: Taint (n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner..

Attaint :: Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.

Innocent :: Innocent (a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.

Hydra-tainted :: Hydra-tainted (a.) Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.

Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

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