Verb

(obsolete, legal) 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 , , 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.

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.

* Macaulay

a huge stone to which the cable was attached

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To adhere; to be attached.

* Brougham

The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

Dower will attach .

(Cooley)

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.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(en verb)

To pull toward without touching.

* Derham

All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.

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To arouse interest.

To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

* (John Milton)

Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.