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▪ I. † enˈtach, n. Obs. rare—1.
In 4 entecche.
[f. next vb.]
A symptom of an illness.
c1350Will. Palerne 558, I..told him al treuly þe entecches of myn evele.
▪ II. † enˈtach, enˈtech, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 entech, -tecch, -tetch, 5 entatch, (entachch), 5–6 entach.
[a. OF. entachier, entechier, to imbue with any quality, infect (cf. mod.F. enticher to infect), f. en- (see en-1) + tache, teche, spot, mark, contagion, ‘trait’ of character, etc.; perh. ultimately identical with tache, *tac tack: see attach.]
1. trans. To stain, defile; to infect.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 120 Who so þat euer is entecched and defouled wiþ yuel. c1450Lonelich Grail l. 259 Non Of hem Entachched was with non Maner Synne. 1481Caxton Myrr. iii. x. 156 Alle we abyde entetched and soylled therby [by Adam's sin]. 1483― G. de la Tour D iij, And of this manere the moost parte of the world is entatched and ouercome. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (1845) 137 With fervent love and fyry lemes entached.
2. To imbue with any quality, good or evil. See enteched ppl. a.
3. ? To link together. [? var. attach.] rare—1.
c1450Merlin xviii. 288 Thei were so thikke and so entacched ech amonge other, that mo than a thousand fill in to the river.
Hence enˈteched ppl. a., imbued with certain qualities or dispositions; only with qualifying advbs. [So OFr. bien, mal entechié.]
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 832 On of the best enteched creature, That is or shal, while that the world may dure. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 150 A croked hors never the better is entecchede, Althoughe his bridelle glistre of golde and shyne. |