attach (orig. a law-term = ‘arrest’, ‘indict’; the meaning ‘join’ is considerably post-S.)
1.
to arrest or
seize, as by authority of a writ (of attachment)
Err. IV. i. 74
“I you by this
officer,”
2H4 IV. ii. 110
“Of capital treason I
attach you both,”
H8 I. i. 217; fig. 2H4 II. ii. 3; hence
“attached” =
affected
Tp. III. iii. 5
“attach'd with
weariness,”
Troil. V. ii. 158.
2.
to seize with the
hands
LLL. IV. iii. 375
“every man attach the
hand Of his fair mistress.”
