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attached, ppl. a.|əˈtætʃt|
[f. attach v. + -ed.]
1. Arrested, seized under warrant of attachment.
1611Cotgr., Saisi, seised, laied hold on..attached, arrested. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Attaching, He that attaches keeps the party attached.
†2. Seized, attacked (with sickness, passion, etc.).
1552Huloet, Attached wyth syckenes. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 66 Attached of loue. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. vi. §3 (1622) 253 Attatched with a dangerous sicknesse.
3. Tacked on, fastened by a material union to.
1841De Quincey Homer & Hom. Wks. VI. 387 Homer introduces horses only as attached to the chariots. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §3. 30 Moving the staff with such fragments attached to it.
b. Zool. Fixed to a spot during life, stationary, as opposed to ‘free’;
c. Arch. Joined to a wall, etc., instead of standing clear, or ‘detached.’
1854Woodward Man. Mollusca (1856) 7 Most of them [Mollusca] are attached, or have no means of moving from place to place. 1879G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 149 The attached and detached shafts may be used alternately.
4. Joined functionally.
1859Tennent Ceylon I. iv. viii. 493 A cemetery..attached to the city. 1879Ruskin Lett. Clergy 4 Are the clergymen..simply the attached and salaried guides of England?
5. Joined by taste, predilection, affection, or sympathy to; partial, fond, affectionate, devoted.
1793T. Beddoes Math. Evid. 9 Readers, attached to these speculations, will find abundant entertainment. 1823Byron Juan xii. xxxv, Fred really was attach'd. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 165 The theological system to which his family was attached. 1853Lytton My Novel x. ii, Paulina became excessively attached to her. 1857Livingstone Trav. xii. 215 The Barotse are strongly attached to this fertile valley. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. xxix. 508 Ardent Protestants side by side with the attached friends of Mary.
6. Incident to.
1852McCulloch Taxation i. iv. 129 The inconveniences attached to duties on expenditure. |