a. Obs. Also 5 techyd, tacched. [f. TACHE sb.1 + -ED2.] Having qualities of a specified kind; (well- or ill-) mannered or conditioned.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 116. He þat hauys a lityll fface … ys wycked, and euyl-techyd, deceyuant, and dronkelew.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1906), 18. All gentilwomen and nobill maydenes … ought to be goodli, meke, wele tached, ferme in estate, behauing, and maners.
c. 1450. Merlin, 83. The trewest of this londe and beste tacched.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 556/2. An euil tached horse shaketh of sometime the bridle and runneth out at large.
