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Webster 1913 Edition
Attach
At-tach′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Attached
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Attaching
.] 1.
To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join;
as, to
. attach
one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the likeThe shoulder blade is . . .
attached
only to the muscles. Paley.
A huge stone to which the cable was
attached
. Macaulay.
2.
To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint;
as, an officer is
. attached
to a certain regiment, company, or ship3.
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; – with to;
as,
attached
to a friend; attaching
others to us by wealth or flattery.Incapable of
attaching
a sensible man. Miss Austen.
God . . . by various ties
attaches
man to man. Cowper.
4.
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; – with to;
as, to
. attach
great importance to a particular circumstanceTop this treasure a curse is
attached
. Bayard Taylor.
5.
To take, seize, or lay hold of.
[Obs.]
Shak.
6.
To take by legal authority:
(a)
To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; – applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b)
To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment
, 4. The earl marshal
attached
Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge.
Attached column
(Arch.)
, a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
Syn. – To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin; annex; append; win; gain over; conciliate.
At-tach′
,Verb.
I.
1.
To adhere; to be attached.
The great interest which
attaches
to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.
2.
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest;
as, dower will
. attach
Cooley.
At-tach′
,Noun.
An attachment.
[Obs.]
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Attach
ATTACH'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take by legal authority; to arrest the person by writ, to answer for a debt; applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being never used for the arrest of a criminal. It is applied also to the taking of goods and real estate by an officer, by virtue of a writ or precept, to hold the same to satisfy a judgment to be rendered in the suit.2.
To take, seize and lay hold on, by moral force, as by affection or interest; to win the heart; to fasten or bind by moral influence; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.3.
To make to adhere; to tie, bind or fasten; as, to attach substances by any glutinous matter; to attach one thing to another by a string.Definition 2024
attach
attach
English
Verb
attach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)
- (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- Miss Yonge
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- Paley
- The shoulder blade is […] attached only to the muscles.
- 1856, page 60 of "The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volumes 3-4" by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
- A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later
- 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
- You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
- (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
- Brougham
- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- Brougham
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- Dower will attach.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cooley to this entry?)
- To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
- attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- Jane Austen
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- Cowper
- God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- Bayard Taylor
- To this treasure a curse is attached.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
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to fasten, to join to
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to arrest, seize
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