Obs. [f. prec. vb.]
1. The act of laying hold of, apprehension by writ, arrest.
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., E vij b. The meanes for my attach.
1607. Heywood, Wom. Kilde, Wks. 1874, II. 102. I am made the vnwilling instrument of your attach and apprehension.
1641. Termes de la Ley, Attach is a taking or apprehending by command or writ.
2. fig. A seizure or attack of disease, etc.
1674. J. B[rian], Harv.-Home, § 4. 23. Free from attaches Of sickness, weakness, in no part feel aches.
3. A tie, attachment; a thing attached.
1663. Sir G. Mackenzie, Relig. Stoic, xiii. (1685), 117. Have the weakest attachs to this life.
1694. Ladies’ Dict., An attache is, as much as to say … one thing fasten’d to another.
1742. in Bailey.
