Obs. [Aphetic f. ATTACHMENT.]

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  1.  Something attached; an appurtenance.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 1568. I ȝif the for thy tyþandez [MS. thyȝandez] Tolouse þe riche, The tolle and þe tachementez, tavernez and oþer.

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  2.  A judicial seizure or apprehension of one’s person or goods; ellipt. the writ authorizing such seizure: = ATTACHMENT 1, 2.

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14[?].  Customs Malton, in Surtees Misc. (1888), 58. Noo othyr Balyffe schal make no tachement nor somond.

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1467–9.  Paston Lett., II. 296. Be the wey of tachements owte of the Chauncer.

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1545.  Brinklow, Compl., 41. Ye haue a parcyall lawe in making of tachmentys, first come, first seruyd.

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