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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Attach \At*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attached}; p. pr & vb
n. {Attaching}.] [OF. atachier F. attacher, to tie or
fasten: cf Celt. tac, tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack
to fasten. Cf {Attack}, and see {Tack}.]
1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join
as to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue,
or the like
The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the
muscles. --Paley.
A huge stone to which the cable was attached.
--Macaulay.
2. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by
authority; to appoint; as an officer is attached to a
certain regiment, company, or ship.
3. 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 as attached to a friend; attaching
others to us by wealth or flattery.
Incapable of attaching a sensible man. --Miss
Austen.
God . . . by various ties attaches man to man.
--Cowper.
4. To connect, in a figurative sense to ascribe or
attribute; to affix; -- with to as to attach great
importance to a particular circumstance.
Top this treasure a curse is attached. --Bayard
Taylor.
5. To take seize, or lay hold of [Obs.] --Shak.
6. To take by legal authority:
a To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to
answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a
taking of the person by a civil process; being now
rarely used for the arrest of a criminal.
b To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a
writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment
which may be rendered in the suit. See {Attachment},
4.
The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high
treason. --Miss Yonge.
{Attached column} (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so
that only a part of its circumference projects from it
Syn: To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin;
annex; append; win; gain over conciliate.
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