ppl. a. [f. ATTACH v. + -ED.]
1. Arrested, seized under warrant of attachment.
1611. Cotgr., Saisi, seised, laied hold on … attached, arrested.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Attaching, He that attaches keeps the party attached.
† 2. Seized, attacked (with sickness, passion, etc.).
1552. Huloet, Attached wyth syckenes.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 66. Attached of loue.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. vi. § 3 (1622), 253. Attatched with a dangerous sicknesse.
3. Tacked on, fastened by a material union to.
1841. De Quincey, Homer & Hom., Wks. VI. 387. Homer introduces horses only as attached to the chariots.
1860. Tyndall, 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.’
1854. Woodward, Man. Mollusca (1856), 7. Most of them [Mollusca] are attached, or have no means of moving from place to place.
1879. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 149. The attached and detached shafts may be used alternately.
4. Joined functionally.
1859. Tennent, Ceylon, I. IV. viii. 493. A cemetery … attached to the city.
1879. Ruskin, 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.
1793. T. Beddoes, Math. Evid., 9. Readers, attached to these speculations, will find abundant entertainment.
1823. Byron, Juan, XII. xxxv. Fred really was attach’d.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 165. The theological system to which his family was attached.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, X. ii. Paulina became excessively attached to her.
1857. Livingstone, Trav., xii. 215. The Barotse are strongly attached to this fertile valley.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., V. xxix. 508. Ardent Protestants side by side with the attached friends of Mary.
6. Incident to.
1852. McCulloch, Taxation, I. iv. 129. The inconveniences attached to duties on expenditure.
