| 单词 | to stain blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stain (a person's) blood ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > deprive of rights by conviction > attaint attainta1400 to stain (a person's) blood1569 corrupta1616 taint1732 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [verb (transitive)] > prove of base descent to stain (a person's) blood1569 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 530 If he sayde contrarie, he..slaundered his mother, shamed himselfe, and steyned his blood. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. §745 By his attainder of Treason or Felonie his blood is so stained and corrupted as..his children cannot be heyres to him. 1679 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws To be attainted is, that his Blood be held in Law as stained and corrupted. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xv. 252 The doctrine of escheat upon attainder,..is this: that the blood of the tenant, by the commission of any felony..is corrupted and stained. < as lemmas |
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