Definition of taint

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Taint (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air..

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Pathognomonic :: Pathognomonic (a.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom..
Mildew :: Mildew (v. i.) To become tainted with mildew.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A touch or hit.
Fugacity :: Fugacity (a.) Uncertainty; instability.
Barratrous :: Barratrous (/) Tainter with, or constituting, barratry..
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather..
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..
Satisfactory :: Satisfactory (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation..
Festivity :: Festivity (n.) The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
Andabatism :: Andabatism (n.) Doubt; uncertainty.
Dubitancy :: Dubitancy (n.) Doubt; uncertainty.
Assize :: Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.
Attainture :: Attainture (n.) Attainder; disgrace.
Flyblown :: Flyblown (a.) Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air..
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
Certain :: Certain (n.) Certainty.
Mildew :: Mildew (v. t.) To taint with mildew.
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