Ensconce vs Attach - What's the difference?
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To place in a secure environment.
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To settle comfortably.
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(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2
* Miss Yonge
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
* Paley
* Macaulay
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* Brougham
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
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 .
* Jane Austen
* Cowper
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .
* Bayard Taylor
(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
In transitive terms the difference between ensconce and attach
is that ensconce is to place in a secure environment while attach is to fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).In intransitive terms the difference between ensconce and attach
is that ensconce is to settle comfortably while attach is to adhere; to be attached.ensconce
English
Verb
- They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave.
- Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
Usage notes
Particularly used in form ensconced, as in “she was ensconced in an armchair.”Synonyms
* (settle comfortably) cuddle upattach
English
Verb
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.
- a huge stone to which the cable was attached
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- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- Dower will attach .
- (Cooley)
- attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God by various ties attaches man to man.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To this treasure a curse is attached .
- (Shakespeare)